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I occasionally browse the Data Explorer and appreciate it's not real-time, but only a snapshot at the time it was last updated.
I thought it was updated monthly, at least that's what the FAQ states but there's been no update since the end of June.
I asked a similar question previously and it was updated.
So, are monthy updates unofficial (in which case I'll stop asking every time it's "overdue") or is this a bug/oversight?
In general, the update schedule is supposed to be somewhere between monthly and bi-monthly. Since it requires some level of manual involvement by a developer though, sometimes Data Explorer updates have to take a back seat to more pressing changes.
However, there are some additional potential delay factors at the moment. The most relevant of these is the fact that Data Explorer may be moving house as part of hardware upgrades to the network. Once the dust has settled on that whole process, I'm hoping that it will be easier to update Data Explorer on a more consistent basis (though I don't know specifically how the process works or what plans are in place, so don't hold me to that).
