2016-09 Web Badges

Finally got around to adding some paraphernalia for bragging about one's maturity and data diligence.

Basically - tick a box in the app and it'll include sizes of your backups in check-for-update requests. These get dully recorded on the server side and can later be retrieved as a badge like this at an opportune moment.

This is primarily meant for forum signatures as such. Though, of course, this sort of thing is not as popular as it used to be just few years back.

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One positive change here is that the actual rendering on an image is now dramatically simpler, because it's ... an SVG! Meaning that it's a matter of taking a template and then str_replace'ing a couple of values in it.

In comparison, it used to be needed to generate actual raster images, which had its own can of worms with DPI, font and caching issues. So that's thankfully is no more.

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Attached is an in-use mock-up based on a DonationCoder forum thread.