How To Show Live-Updating Rank

This can be another gaming aspect of any site that has users doing frequent activities. It will be good for roflfaucet, I think. The leaderboard is fine, but we can make it more interesting by also putting in the sidebar a sampling of the leaderboard, which updates frequently enough to be called “real time”. This way the player can see their competition and how close they are to overtaking them.

In the video below, the players who are active are highlighted. It would be better if the player’s own entry was highlighted differently to the others, perhaps by a lightly colored background, because with all the moving around, it’s not easy to see which is you.

Whatever, it’s an extra bit of gamification for very few extra resources, using existing data, so it’s good!