I really like the city completion email and the little calculated stats it shares, but currently that info only lives in my email archive. For cities I finished a long time ago it’s buried. I think it’d be cool if there was a tab on each city page with the following info:
total streets
total miles/kms
date of user’s first activity in this city
user’s cumulative activities in this city
user’s cumulative mileage/kms in this city
date of user’s 100% completion activity in this city
Furthermore, it’d be nice if this tab was continually updated while working on a city until 100%, but if that consumes too much resources it’d be fine for it to only be ‘unlocked’ upon achieving 100%.
The far right tab on the city page displays some of this. I can add some stats to it - this is a nice list.
Update: After a quick review, I noticed all of these stats are already on the page.
Total streets/distance of a city is at the top of the page.
Start date, total activities, total distance are all in that stats tab.
I don’t have the completion date & won’t have it until/unless I do a drastic overhaul of the underlying data (the short version is that at the time of processing that percentage complete stat, I have no visibility of the activities in question).
I also changed the completion emails (along with a bunch of other emails) to be notifications … So instead of just an email being sent, it also creates a notification record in the CityStrides database which is linked from the top right menu as well as the hopping bell icon if you have any unread.
There’s a whole pile of improvements I could make to that notifications setup, so if you have any ideas specific to that I would prefer that you open a new thread instead of adding to this one.
Just a question on this data, number of activities, how is this defined? Is it all activities that have touched this city at all? Like if I run the same course five times in a city, will that count as five on this. Summary page? And once I’m at 100% complete, will the activity count stop, or increase if I run there again?
I believe it’s only counting activities that completed a new node. Not sure how that is affected by Hard Mode, ie, if you completed a city normally and later switched to Hard Mode, if you then have additional activities that contributed between 90-100% of a street’s nodes.
The relevant activities are any of those that complete a node in the city. Once a node is complete, it can’t be “re-completed”.
As a very unrealistic but clear example, if you have a run you do regularly that always touches exactly and only the same 10 nodes on 1 street - that would count as 1 activity even if you have run that same route 1,000 times.
The inversely unrealistic example is also true - if you complete all but 1 node of your city in 1 activity, and then run 1 more activity that happens to complete that 1 node then your stats would read as 2 activities.
Also, Hard Mode is not relevant for this - it has nothing to do with whether the related streets are complete or not, it’s entirely based on the nodes.
Sorry, was thinking about this again tonight, almost made a new post, and realized I’d already asked it heh. But rereading your reply here I want to make sure I understand – the email is sent out when the system sees that the user is at 100%, but it doesn’t actually register when the final activity occured that got the user to 100%?
If so, could you just surrogate the email send date as the 100% date? I assume for most users that date is the same as the activity, barring a late upload or sync/processing/system delay.
As a followup, it’d be cool if the first/last activity date hyperlinked to the activity page, and would maybe allow you to ‘check’ the date of completion? Ie, if the completion date didn’t correspond to an activity that completed a street in that city, it could go to n-1, n-2, etc. until encountering an activity that satisfied the requirement. As a non-coder, I have no idea if this would be easy or not, just trying to think of some logic that could make it work
I’ll hold off a bit before closing this, in case there are any other ideas for additional stats.