A while back, I was pleased that my TTLB Ecosystem ranking moved up to "Adorable Little Rodent". Then, about a week later, I was down to "Flappy Bird", which was a bit surprising. At some point, I dropped even further, back to "Slithering Reptile", before recovering back to "Flappy Bird". NZ Bear explains what happened:
Some folks have noticed that there has been some weirdness on the Ecosytem lately.
First, a little over a week ago, everybody's total link counts took a steep plunge. This was on purpose. The Ecosystem is meant to track 'current' links that each blog is receiving; not every link going back forever. But, for various technical reasons, I had to stop clearing out old links for a while — and everybody's counts continued to drift upward.
Around 11/27, I fixed that, and cleared out all the old links. Unfortunately, that created a bit of an abrupt change in the rankings. But, from here on, things should stabilize.
I still suspect that there are problems with the full database, because I can see only some of the blogs that I know are linking to Quotulatiousness (mostly in the Brigade). Still, the graphic looks a bit like the Dow in October 1929:
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