Things have been quiet on this blog for several months. The reason for that is due to some of the earliest programming decisions that were made. So, the past few months were spent preparing for the future. Many of the decisions that were made in the beginning were based on the idea that YackTrack was only a blog comment tracking application. Due to such silly assumptions, adding on keyword searches and more services meant that the application became more complicated than it needed to be.
So, a better foundation has been laid down. There is still work to do, but there is a much better plan in place. Some things which looked like they would be almost impossible to add, are now possible.
However, when decisions are made, sometimes they do not go in favor of the user. The big change today is that only 13 months of history will be kept for free accounts. This change in data will occur over several days or weeks, depending on how much it affects the live service. Up to this point, I was trying to keep as much history as possible. This is just not cost effective for a free service. You may be asking why I said “free accounts” or whether there are non-free accounts. Currently, there are no premium accounts, but it they have always been in the plan. There will be premium services in the near future, and longer history could be an option but I am not promising anything yet.
As always, if you have any questions, feedback or feature requests, please let me know.
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