I don't like the idea of bots posting like this, it is just spam. The charts themselves are 99% unintelligible in my opinion.
Ban it I say, if the owner has something worth sharing, he can share it himself
Ban it I say, if the owner has something worth sharing, he can share it himself
I think he should fill them in to smooth surfaces and post a short video of how they evolve in time for the last 6,12 or 24 hours instead of all the instantaneous snapshots ... and rotate the perspective back slightly ... or have like a tunnel view down the center of the walls and play it as a movie as you fly through it (forward in time)
Animated movies would be pretty cool. But animated gifs consume a huge amount of space and not everyone has a high bandwidth connection. That would be better done as an application but would not be able to be embedded in the page (it may be something that I would do at another time).
I didn't want to smooth as that could hide features. Also filling. If a wall pops up, anything behind it would not be visible. It's the difference between powerpoint-style MBA pretty picture stuff and presenting data accurately. Though I do agree that the charts are not useful for technical purposes but there are excellent services like bitcoinity for that. They are more supposed to be a way to view wall movement over time and because before, someone would post asking for charts every couple of hours.
I'll post up a poll sometime to see if it's worth continuing with ChartBuddy. I know some people like it and it's easy to hit ignore but I know it's not appreciated by everyone also.
Edit: I see there's a poll. I'll abide by that.
