What EntreCard sorely lacks

Posted on August 14th, 2008 by Richard Catto 1,093 views

As a recently Born Again regular all out EC dropper, I’ve hit a few snags that I would like EntreCard to put right as soon as I’ve finished typing this up.

Basically, using the existing EC reporting tools, I cannot easily figure out who all has ever dropped on me, how often and when the last time they did it. I don’t know how many UNIQUE EC droppers my blog has ever had.

What we get on the EC dashboard is the ability to see who dropped on us on a daily basis. That means that if X dropped on me today and yesterday and the day before, X’s card appears 3 times, under each day.

This is no good for compiling drop lists because I need a UNIQUE list of droppers, and I want to be able to order it in a number of different ways.

Some sorting examples:

• Order by most drops of all time
• Order by most recent drop
• Order by most drops in the Last X days

I also want to see a list of folks I dropped on who have NEVER returned my drops. Or who have not returned my drops in the Last X days.

I want to see a list of all those who frequently return my drops.

I want to see a list of people who drop on me and I have never returned their drops. Or not returned them in the Last X days.

I want to be able to dream up new criteria and create totally customised reports on the fly.

I want an API that I can plug into and by using my own home grown combination of HTML, PHP, CSS and javascript, create my own fully customised EC front end to total reporting heaven, but I don’t have any EntreCard API to hook into.

I want pie charts, histograms, pretty graphs to let me SEE the BIG PICTURE.

I want all of this NOW.

Let me know when it’s ready. I’m going on break now. When I get back, I expect to see RESULTS!

Tags: custom reports, EntreCard, EntreCard reports, EntreCard stats, graphs
Filed under Entre Card | No Comments »