Soridata - Changelog 2026-10-07Fixed small issue on resizing of images on uploading artist pictures.2026-10-03Fixed a few filters on Artist pagesAdded cache on default Artist pages (groups / all / idols)2026-10-03Adding end-of-year awards starting 1995 instead of 2000.2026-10-02Fixed some artists not recording pre-2010 (riak/miak) sales on their dataFixed some artists not counting end-of-year awards on their profiles if they had no music show awards2026-10-01Changed Donation drive bar to show red value if value is under 50% (because background is white)Upgraded my canvas control function to prepare new feature. Some graphics might not render properly until you refresh your cache2026-09-28Fixed BUG where some URL's were being turned into lowercase2026-09-22Serious BUG causing plot graphic on compare page to not display and possibly cause a ban was fixedSales and Streaming pages failing to display unregistered virtual/AI artists in red fixedFixed issue where some artists which reached success earlier than their debut date were being listed as not successfulAdded a few upcoming releases on the Trending page2026-09-18Added md (Markdown) versions for Artists page and Artist detail page2026-09-17Added llms.txt for AI agentsFixed serious bug on calculating "Time to success" where sales above 100000 were not being countedIPs not believed to be bots can see ONE page before the captcha shows upImplemented friendly URL for group list (https://soridata.com/groups.html)Moved "News Bits" from being an iframe to be inside the index itself.2026-09-16Changed URL structure of Artist Compare (Now it is compare/artist_1/artist_2)Removed bubble graph for comparisons where neither artist has meaningul statistics2026-09-13Coming soon artists will show on the news reel. Click the artist to see the date and song2026-09-10Changed how bans are handled to speed up serverImproved compatibility and reliability of voice synth on artist page "pronounce" buttonAdded a new safety layer on all captchas2026-09-09Changed how bans are handled to be faster on the serverChanged "Pronounce" button to be able to pronounce Chinese, Taiwanese, Thai, Japanese and English. Changed how Voice Synth works to reduce early stutter. Improved compatibility with Firefox.2026-09-09Added Spotify Top Tracks (embed) on Artist Pages if a Spotify Link is set2026-09-04Added user option (Preferences > Video data show inside Popins (same page)) so you can now disable the Popin of MVs and instead open it as a normal link.MV page can now be accessed as a normal page (since January's update, it was only loaded as a popin)Moved news ticker below the donation drive requestSmall fixes and improvements on the centralized script2026-09-03Fixed serious issue on video update schedule, causing some recent videos NEVER updatingDatabase update time no longer PST, rather server time (GMT-3)Prepared to implement "latest" ticker that is on index to show across all site (needs to propagate CSS cache)2026-09-01Added Latest Animated Ticker at Index2026-08-30Adjusted some invalid User Agents (bots) being able to bypass the safety captchaRemoved link to old News section from indexFixed Debut artists not showing on the news bits sometimesFixed wrong font (too big) being used on awards list on mobile2026-08-26New Artists Page lists all artists.2026-08-24Fixed the fact that DEBUTS were not showing on the Index news 2026-08-18Small fixes on upload pageAdded moderation page to check artists missing picturesFixed videos not recording their first daily view when registered2026-08-17Tweaked artist page pane orders to be more organic, added sub dynamic top menu with table of contents.Added search to fixed dynamic top menu.Top of page icon will no longer display if you are already at topAdded a "dismiss" button on the Donation request pane. It will hide it for 24h2026-08-12Fixed Options pane now showing properlyFixed wrong dimension minimums being enforced on image uploadIncreased number of images per artist from 5 to 10Fixed wrong artists being returned on automatic name detection if multiple active artists with same name existed on internal cache, but different year or parent groups specified.Tweaked Awards page. Title with the show logos only display if the shows change on the Year change header.Fixed redirect from kpop.daisuki.com.br that was not working and sending requests to soridata.com2026-08-10Fixed wrong "Yena" matching on Circle ChartsAdded Daily view graphic to MVs. Data started being collected on 2026-08-05, but data between 2020-06 and 2026-01 is available2026-08-07Fixed missing captcha on contact page2026-08-04Change on bot control, ban control and IP control to optimize speed and reliability (bans were reset at this time)2026-07-29Fixed/Improved code that balances youtube API calls to consider that video updates are now balanced per hourPreparing to bring back the daily view graphic for the first 3 months of a video (including the historic data we had before the site was shutdown in January 20th)2026-07-25Fixed issue where wrong cached versions were being displayed to non-logged users, as well wrong Donation requests and captchas.Rewritten how some javascript and server variables are tradedUpdated banned-bots list2026-07-24Added an internal hash for the video table, and changed update scheduling to use said hash to distribute the video updates through the day and also enforce that each video is updated at the same time of day every day (if there is a server down or something, it will try to rollback and keep up).2026-07-22Added Company back to artists. Only Groups will have companies set for simplicity sake. Companies have been refreshed from the most recent known companies, the top 600 groups (by award/stream) have been filled.AI DISCLAIMER: The 600+ Companies set were fetched by Gemini 3.1 flash LLMTweaked security settingsChanged internal folder composition2026-07-07Fixed "Play" button appearing on Noteworthy Audios at Artist Page2026-06-17Incorrect Little-Known artists data on Yearly Awards fixedDatabase Download now includes the whole Yearly Awards table.2026-06-16All new Yearly Awards now fully registered one by one on the database, allowing better tracking and statisticsChanged Yearly Awards page to allow searches and filtersPropagated changes on Yearly Awards across the whole siteTweaks on some popins like Music Show Awards and Annual Awards2026-06-10Fixed layout of music show awards on the Index breaking sometimes2026-06-09Implemented Billboard caching2026-06-08Improved Artist name detection on automated system to handle "[GROUP] [MEMBER] - [MV title]"Improved handling of general artist name detection2026-06-01Several internal changes on domain and folder handling, warning pages handling and load balance2026-05-30Added The Show back to current award showsTweaked timing on confirmation popinsTweaped sizes of Award Shows icons and fonts on mobile2026-05-15Several different formats for " ' " that are used around the world have been better normalized on the database and searches. We use the simple quote character across the database, replacing any other simular character such as "prime", "acute", "#39", "grave" and "rsquote" with their Unicode counterparts.Improved text match on Artist and MV names for Melon / CircleChart. 2026-05-09Improved local captcha for image, enforced permanent ban on obvious malicious intent. "Unban me" button now also requires captcha, and is only available to non permanent bans.2026-03-25Fixed new Melon Daily chart format reader.2026-03-06Added "Unbanme" button on "Banned" page, and fixed a loop causing people to be banned even when they got the captcha right.2026-02-24Index's News bits brought back.2026-02-17If an invalid release date for a video is entered, it will be ignored and published date will be used.2026-02-13Changed order of pie-chart graphics on Artist Pages to align with the timeline of each metric.2026-02-12Fixed wrong Circle Chart Monthly detection code2026-02-10Added Top 10 songs on Artist Comparison page (as long both artists have at least 1 song that charted)2026-02-06Re-implemented Database Download. Contains the same data as before, but only SQL is available.Added database download page/icon againAdjusted some MV updating squeduleAdjusted caching to be more prominentAdded pronunciation of Korean names on Artist Details2026-02-05Fixed issue where some favourite groups were not showing as favouritesFixed password reset bug2026-02-03Fixed issue where "Consider collabs with favourites as favourites" and "Consider members of favourite groups as favourites" were not working.We are now supporting "Global Groups" on the database. These will be flagged as global groups and can have the visibility toggles on/off on user options.2026-02-02Improved Awards List not to show awards that didn't exist on any specific year (thus, removing The Show from this year)2026-01-27Several bug-fixes from the new codeI decided to quit the Non-Organic views after realizing it would take some work to import the old database schema to the new just for this.2026-01-26Soridata has returned hugely cleaned up and with all community features removed. Most changes remove emphasys from Youtube Views. Full list of changes:Milestones removed;Historic Top 30 MVs removed;Companies removed;Youtube Channel list/register removed;Followers from Artists removed;Articles removed;Database download removed;CSV download removed;RSS removed;Community edit access removed (core members still have access);All mentions of Non-organic views were removed from pages that are not related to it;Non-organic views pages (recent, per artist, per year) offline;MV pages are now only pop-ins, Graphics, daily views and likes removed; Tech stats removed;Some user options were removed;ADSense support removed;Discord Channel deleted; Contact address removed; The site will now be my hobby solo project and nobody has a say in it.2026-01-22The domain soridata.com was moved to another registrar, but hostinger will still be the main host for the site.2026-01-21We have moved daisuki.com.br away from soridata.com to prevent issues with one affecting the other, since the suspension of Soridata had taken down daisuki.com.br too.Daisuki.com.br was restored as a static site on a new server.2026-01-19The site was suspended by host Hostinger after a brigading campaign by fantards who complained about the Non-organic views being "fake" and "misleading". Although the host agreed to unsuspend the site, we decided to take it down.