Stats v.1.6 dropping on monday (3/10/2008)

Issues addressed in this release:

1. lack of updates for new files
2. low numbers for past 9 months
3. speed to load stats UI
4. accuracy of data
5. user agents list (zune, appleTV, iPhone, miro, etc added)
6. real trending data over time.. per month/week/day downloads of episodes or entire show
7. general confusion from v.1.5.2

The "old stats" 1.5.2 will continue to be updated while "new stats" 1.6 continues to catch up for some users.  By the end of this month, we intend to stop supporting the old stats with any new updates and only the new stats will be getting new data.

There are currently 2 partitions which contain many popular users and therefore taking longer to re-process that last 9 months worth of data.  We've held off an extra couple weeks from releasing this version while we waited for all users to catch up.  Our feelings now are why make the 90% suffer for the 10% that are behind.  If you are unlucky enough to be in that 10%, please be patient while your data catches up.

For the most recent issues some users have been experiencing this week regarding slow or no updates, those engines are working to catch up.  You should see v.1.5.2 numbers updating over the weekend.