Some of our users may have noticed two brief times where the site was down for maintenance today. Hopefully it did not freak anyone out too much! While the site was shut down for maintenance we did some upgrades to our database, our administrative back end, and added one new feature to the website.

On the book details page for each book you can now see how many times your book has been downloaded, giving you an idea of how popular your book is, and giving you some numbers and goals to shoot for! For those looking to get ahead of the pack in the current contests, you can poke about and get an idea of who is leading the pack. This number shows the total downloads over the lifetime of the book.

I'll gloss over the database stuff, since it is really just changes to let the download totals work on the site. The back end features let us track downloads over a period of time, so we can get an idea of book popularity over a given time frame, not just the lifetime of the book.

Labels: features, news, site upgrades