Just when you thought you had mastered the subtleties of the Traackr score, we’re turning the tables on you and displaying the score as an absolute value rather than a percentile.

Here’s why.

The score helps you improve your performance by comparing your score to other users’ and see how you can emulate what they do; but also by looking at your score over time and seeing how your promotion experiments pan out.

This is where the score expressed as a percentile is not doing you a favor: because we have many new users signing up every day, everyone’s percentile score is impacted, just because new users automatically change percentile rankings. If there’s more people, it’s harder be in the highest percentiles.

As the user base stabilizes, we may bring back percentiles, because, after all, they’re good measure of great results.

Meanwhile, we will stick with absolute values. Tell us what you think…

The Traackr Team

We’ve added new features to traackr.com over the weekend:

• A new Dashboard: More data and better readability.
• Public profile views: Your Dashboard now shows you how many people viewed your public profile.
• Tag cloud: You can now visualize your tags in a tag cloud. Just go to your Library and select Tags.

Come and give it a spin: http://www.traackr.com !

Don’t have an account, simply register at http://www.traackr.com/user_profiles/register

The traackr.com team

TRAACKR users,

If your flickr pictures don’t show up in your TRAACKR account after 24h, contact us at contact@traackr.com so that we resolve the problem.

We have experienced some issues with the flickr API due to the larger than expected number of accounts created over the past few days. Our team is working on resolving the problem and building safeguards to avoid such issue to reoccur.

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope this doesn’t scare you off TRAACKR.

Many thanks to Andrew from changingway.org for calling this issue to our attention early on.

The TRAACKR Team