1 post tagged “user cloud”

Tonight I updated the Trizzle Project yet again, this time adding a user cloud page, which shows all of the Trizzle users who have rated at least one song, album or artist in the TrizzBase, and sizes their username according to how many ratings they've done--larger equaling more, of course.

I managed to implement this feature in one day--specced it during lunch, and implemented during the ride home on Caltrain, then while waiting for my pizza to be cooked at Applewood Pizza in Menlo Park. It shows that the Trizzle codebase is getting fairly mature that I can implement a feature like this in one day, since I have so much infrastructure code available for doing things like setting up an object cloud.

This is the kind of feature that could become problematic if people started mindlessly rating things they didn't know anything about, just to make their username get bigger, but for now I think it's a neat feature. I'd just like some of the usernames that don't belong to me to get a bit bigger.

I also cleaned up the profile page a bit, getting rid of the wonky css table in favor of just doing something really simple. Let's face it, css is not my strong point. Next thing on the agenda is to add a tag cloud, recent reviews and recent ratinggs lists to the profile page.