New referral system

We’ve had a referral system in place for quite some time now, but except for the referral-ranking list, it didn’t really do anything for you. This just changed!

The referral system has just been updated to reward you with free premium services when a new account is activated that used your personal referral link. To read more, or start inviting your friends, click here.

Period Graph

Ever wanted to compare your statistics, grouped by day, week, month or even by year? We’ve added a new graph inside the premium section, which does just that!

It’s called the “Period Graph” and allows you to view your stats grouped into certain periods. Click here to check it out!

Pulses in Web API

The Web API allows developers to take data from WhatPulse and use that for their own applications. You could already retrieve data about users and (sub-)teams and now you can also get information about the latest pulses of a user or entire team. For more info, click here.

Sub-teams update

Sub-teams have been a part of the website for a little over two weeks and we’ve gotten some great feedback. One of the most things we got is that there was no easy overview of a sub-team and it’s members. Well, there is now!

Sub-teams have gotten their own page where you can easily see the members and sort them by input, bandwidth or uptime.

Sub-teams

Ever since people could form teams to compete against other groups, we have gotten the requests for the ability to divide a teams up in sub-teams to further improve their competing capabilities.

You can now (team founders and managers only) create sub-teams inside your team and start competing within your team!

On your own time

The pulse times have always been displayed in the local time of where WhatPulse is located (in the Netherlands). But due to diversity of our users, that is simply not practical anymore.

From now on, the time displayed will be in your own personal time. You can also choose the time zone you want to use by using the link on the bottom of each page.

Other Nuggets

• Allow users to reset their own stats

• Make the computer chart on the profiles metric selectable

• Add sub-teams to Web API

• Add easy “Join Team” button to team profile page

• Don’t require users to part their current team before joining a new one

• Normalize dates and times across the site

• Add “My Stats” & “My Team” buttons to help center and forums header

• Fix user team rank bug; it always displayed the last ranking in the team

• Fix menu highlights in forums and help center

Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) has been released recently, and they have updated the Qt packages to the minimum required version to run the WhatPulse client.

This is why we’ve compiled a Debian version of the WhatPulse client.

You can download the Debian release here: http://whatpulse.org/downloads/

The regular Linux installation how-to also applies to Debian.

When you do upgrade, please make sure you pulse your statistics before upgrading. This new version includes stronger database integrity checks, which might cause it to logout the first time 2.1 starts. After this first time, the client will make sure your database stays safe and strong!

As usual, you can find 2.1 on our download page. You can also find a summary of the changes right here:

New!

• Per application keyboard/mouse statistics

• WinPcap 4.1.3 for Windows 8 support

• The login procedure has been simplified to be a breeze. You can add computers from the wizard and it auto detects your computer name.

• New updater for automatic updates to make updating easier

• An option to run WhatPulse as Administrator (Windows), to catch input from elevated applications

Fixed!

• Database backups. This fixes startup crashes and data loss

• Random client crashes

• Client not counting input stats after hibernations

• Linux crash when pf_ring (network) was not available

• Windows lag every 5 minutes

• Tons of other little things!

Improved!

• Network monitoring performance (less CPU)

• Time period selector for per country network stats

• Windows XP support (input and network stats)

• Require SSL libraries on Linux, otherwise account settings cannot be saved

• Linux: Set up network capabilities automatically instead of having to do it manually

• Log to ‘app.log’ inside the settings directory so you can see what’s going on

• Tons of other little things!

Note: If you are getting a startup error on Windows, please remove the directory %LOCALAPPDATA%WhatPulse and try again. It means your database is not integer, coming from the old client.

• Add computer list to Web API output

• Add SSL access for Web API (https://api.whatpulse.org)

• Add pie chart of computer usage in public profile

• Add “Latest Forum Posts” to public profile

• Add missing premium membership trial page

• Add profile preview window when editing your profile

• Add an easy way to add statistic variables in the profile editor

• Optimise loading times by using a CDN for the media files

• Fix short urls for usernames with special characters

• Fix 32/64bit linux downloads by linking to the linux client download page

• Fix “My WhatPulse” navigation when already inside the /my/ menu

• Fix avatar uploads in certain browsers