Where the eyes go

This one is about seeing your reach. New analytics show not just who showed up, but who actually read — and where their attention landed, down to a heatmap on the page. Add QR codes on every link, a community leaderboard, and a scarcity twist on collecting short names, and there's a lot to dig into.

Heatmaps: where attention actually lands

Open any post's analytics (Studio → the 📊 on a post) and you'll see a heatmap of where readers' cursors clustered on the page. It's the difference between guessing and seeing: which passage held people, where they hovered, where they drifted off. A 'heat ink' slider lets you turn the intensity up or down.

It's built to stay fast and stay private. Cursor positions are bucketed into a fixed grid the moment they arrive, so the data size is bounded no matter how much traffic a post gets — and we never store raw mouse trails, only the aggregate. Bots are filtered out.

Reads, not just views

A page load isn't a read, so now we count both. A view becomes a 'read' once someone actually spends time — ten seconds or more — or scrolls deep into the piece. That gives you a real read-through rate, the average time people spend, and how far down they get. You can finally tell a glance from a genuine read.

Alongside that: where readers came from (referrers and countries) and what they're on (devices and browsers). The whole picture, per post.

QR codes on everything

Every link now carries a QR code — your space address, each short name you've collected, your short links, and every post (right on its analytics page). They sit as a small icon to keep things tidy; click to enlarge to a scannable size, then download a print-ready PNG. Put one on a flyer, a sticker, a slide. Your collected short domains finally have an in-real-life on-ramp.

Short names are now rationed

Collecting is more of a game now. Every name has a rarity by length — Legendary at one character, Epic at two, Rare at three — and you can only claim so many of each per month: one Legendary, two Epic, three Rare. A meter in Studio shows what you've spent and when it resets. Rearranging names you already hold is always free; only fresh grabs count against the limit.

Unlockables

Studio has a row of unlockables now — First flag, Rare find, Full set, Collector, Landlord — that light up as your collection grows. The locked ones show exactly what to chase, so there's always a next thing to come back for.

A community leaderboard

j7.is/leaderboard (the 🏆 in the menu) ranks everyone by pure writing math: most posts, longest single post, biggest average word count, and most words total across everything published. Climb it the honest way — write more, write longer, write denser.

See where your images are used

Open any image in your library and it now lists every post that uses it — yours and other people's — as clickable links, so you can trace where a photo ended up across j7. (And yes, the image viewer's close button actually closes it now.)

Easier on the eyes

Reading text is now a classic serif at a comfortable size, with bold, properly-sized headings — much kinder on a phone and from across the room. The crisp pixel font stays where it belongs: menus, buttons, and window chrome.

All of it is live today. Go check your heatmaps, grab a QR for your favorite link, and see where you land on the board.