Trending teams

[mattbk]

Could calculate and display teams that are showing the most growth in either number of givers or amount being received. Stats page or part of a more general "find teams" system (#3127, #3938, etc.).

[aandis]

#3736?

[mattbk]

I think that's related, but in order to incorporate #3127 it might need to not be on the front page. Or maybe that's a simple dropdown in the UI that could be made to look okay.

ETA: Or are you saying that "trending" could be one of the sorts for #3736? I think that could work like that idea.

[aandis]

number of givers or amount being received.

I meant these two could be part of those sort, but the sorting thing will probably be on the homepage.

[mattbk]

How often would the "trending" calculator run? I assume we have other processes that run on a schedule, could this be rolled in to recalculate a database value for is_trending?

[chadwhitacre]

FYI we do have some cron-ish infrastructure.

[chadwhitacre]

We might also consider migrating cron-ish work out of the web app and over to @gratipay-bot.

[mattbk]

We might also consider migrating cron-ish work out of the web app and over to @gratipay-bot.

Out of curiosity, why?

[chadwhitacre]

Because it's hackish to have async tasks running in a thread in the main web app server. It makes it complicated to scale beyond one webserver, because one generally wants to scale async workers separately from web workers.

[mattbk]

It makes it complicated to scale beyond one webserver, because one generally wants to scale async workers separately from web workers.

Ahh, that makes sense. So @gratipay-bot could do its thing over multiple servers if needed, whereas crontab would need to be mirrored to each machine.

[mattbk]

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/787496/what-is-the-best-way-to-compute-trending-topics-or-tags
  • specifically http://stackoverflow.com/a/826509/2152245

[mattbk]

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