Your Account Is Yours, and So Are the Numbers
By glitchdata Team 3 min read
A run of work on the parts of the site that belong to the person using it, rather than to us.
Insights: Your Own Figures
Insights answers two questions in one page. For what you have published: downloads over time and all time, likes, adoptions, how many of your repos are live or waiting for review, a row for each one, and — usually the surprise — which files people actually take. For what you have learned: courses, lessons, hours, quiz pass rate, certificates and progress on each course.
All of it can be downloaded as CSV, so the figures are yours to keep and chart wherever you like.
One honest caveat. Download totals go back to the beginning, but the day-by-day chart only goes back as far as the day we started recording it — the old counter could say how many, never when. The page says so rather than drawing a flat line and letting you assume.
An Account You Can Change
Settings lets you change your name, a short bio and a link, your email, and your password. Your username is also your hub namespace, so changing it moves your datasets and models with you — the form says how many will move and warns that old links will stop working, because they will.
You can also delete the account. It takes your repos with it, which is deliberate: leaving them behind would free your username while orphaned work still sat in it.
Forgotten Passwords, and Being Told Things
There was no way to recover a forgotten password. There is now: ask for a link, follow it, pick a new password, and you are signed in. If you created your account through Google you had no password at all — a reset gives you one, and you can then sign in either way.
And when an admin approves something you published, or sends it back with a note about what to change, you get a notification instead of having to go and look. Admins hear when something arrives for review, for the same reason.
Smaller Things
The site is navigable on a phone — the sections and the search box were simply unreachable on a small screen, which is embarrassing in hindsight. Search snippets no longer leak raw Markdown. And anything scheduled for a future date now stays genuinely hidden until the day, rather than being readable by anyone who guessed the address.