What does the rank value that shows when you go to (http://api.audiotool.com/users/me/) mean?
(sorry if this is the wrong place, I couldn't think of a better spot for it)
What does the rank value that shows when you go to (http://api.audiotool.com/users/me/) mean?
(sorry if this is the wrong place, I couldn't think of a better spot for it)
Comments (19)
Good question. @mbelow can you give an explanation?
... and why is my rank lower than @barclawc - like by factor 20??
lol, ok :)
What was the intended purpose of it?
My thought was that it might be for who new users are followed to when they pick genres.
Could be a good base for making a reputation system
I see what kurp is saying, like giving favorites and downvotes a value, and make the rank affected by how much your stuff is liked by the community, and use it to determine something like how high up the list of artists new users see when they join.
On a somewhat related note, what format are the timestamps for registered/last online that are also found on that page?
Milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000 GMT+0 (i guess)
https://www.timestampconvert.com/
So thats why it was horribly wrong when I tried to convert from unix time
I thought Unix time was the same - did you use seconds instead of millis?
May I ask what you're trying to build?
13 days until I hit 1 year on AT :)
Unix time is seconds, rather than milliseconds, so AT uses a non-standard time notation.
My profile says 11 months, I wanted to know how long until 1 year.
It's a de facto standard if you need milliseconds precision and want to use integers as storage: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#currentTimeMillis()
Ah my bad then, I don't do web development.
No web involved ;)
(thanks for being curious, though!)
Where would you find the most complete directory of audiotool APIs?
I guess we don't share that officially because it always comes with breaking other user's code when we change something. Defining a stable API is hard work and can be very limiting.
BTW you're derailing your own thread ;)
Fair enough.