I have continued to build this love project of mine for the Hive community, adding more features in the last month. Some of the things added are requested by the users, others are my initiative.
Let’s take a look.
One of the key things in this update is the structural redesign of the page. This was necessary as it now allows me to add more elements/chart on the page in a aesthetically pleasing way.
Positioning and Aesthetics
Prior to this update, the gauge chart was sort of the main element, it was centered next to the main debt chart. But this positioning doesn’t allow for adding more elements vertically as you scroll down, because not all of them will have a gauge chart. Most of them are one standing chart, line, area, bar chart or whatever.
So, the arrangement of two charts (gauge and line chart) next to each other is not scalable, so to speak. I mean there are always options, but I wanted it to be simple and nice. Also, the size of the gauge chart was probably a bit too much. Now it is on top of the line chart with smaller size. When it comes to aesthetics a lot of it taste so it’s never-ending. But I needed elements vertically stacked to continue adding new ones.
Another thing that has changed is the background itself, it’s more of a darkish now, going for a more standard dark version then the previous color one, type of green.
New Element – HBD Supply Chart
This was requested by users, as the HBD supply chart is something that is not easy to find around.
Up until now there were two elements, debt and HBD in savings. Now we can see the HBD supply chart.
Note on the supply. The chart shows the HBD supply that is freely available and in circulation. It excludes the HBD in the DHF. As of now there is around 11M HBD freely available, and 23M in the DHF. The sum of the two is around 34M. The current values of all the different types of HBD supply are on the web, just the historical values with the line chart are for the freely circulating HBD. This value is used when the debt is calculated by the chain.
There is a dedicated table on the server for this data, and an api backend for it. A full stack 😊.
Going forward the different types of HBD supply will be added as well.
Sidebar
Since there are now more options, I have added a sidebar to easily navigate to. It collapses to hamburger menu when in mobile view.
The sidebar is simple and with the style of the page. As all the things here its all custom made. It highlights as you go through the options and collapses to hamburger in the mobile view.
When it comes to the mobile view I have made improvements there as well, for readability and visibility, removed clustering. But I think there is room for improvement, as somehow, I don’t like the view now as much. It all works and shows but hopefully will make it looks nice going forward.
This small web page that is now two years old has went trough its transformation. From a client only web with one chart, manually= updated, to a full stack app with tables and backend with auto updates, with multiple options and now a clear path forward for adding more elements.
Google analytics shows that more than 600 users have visited the site in the last year, a 10 to 20 users daily, with some occasional spikes to 100. Its quite modest numbers, but I’m somewhat surprised in a positive manner as I haven’t expected to be used as much.
Going forward I will continue to add new things, this was somewhat big update so I wanted to post a longer posts. More charts on HBD supply, and probably at some point I will start adding HIVE data, although the web is more HBD focused.
Any feedback positive or negative is more than welcomed. Do you have something specific that you want to be added?
