The station leaderboard gets a podium
The station leaderboard was a correct table and not much more. It listed every receiver feeding Skydex, ranked by Signal, with nine columns of numbers per row. If you knew what you were looking for, you could find it. If you just opened the page to see how the network was doing, you had to read a spreadsheet to find out.
This update keeps every number and changes how they are shown.
A podium for each band
The three best-ranked receivers in each band now sit on a podium above the table: gold in the middle, silver and bronze either side. Each card shows the station's Signal class in large type, its place, who runs it (when the owner keeps the credit on), a Signal bar out of 1000, and the three numbers people ask about first: uptime, streak and what it heard. Click anywhere on a card to open the station.
Sky and water keep their own podiums. An ADS-B receiver and an AIS receiver listen to different things with different hardware, so they are not in the same race, and the page still says so.
The table below the podium still lists the top three. The podium is the headline, the table is the whole ladder, and no row disappears depending on where you look.
Signal you can see
Every row now has a thin bar under the station name, coloured by its Signal class, with the points printed next to it. The class letter tells you where a station sits. The bar tells you how close it is to the next class, which is what a feeder trying to climb actually wants to know.
Status became a small pill: green with a pulse when a station is online, grey with the same wording as before when it is not. Uptime got a short meter under the percentage. The first three rows carry their medals instead of #1, #2, #3.
The band header
Each band opens with a header card that shows how many stations it has, how many are online right now, how many are dormant, and the 30-day window the columns count over. Sky is blue, water is teal, so you can tell at a glance which ladder you are in.
On a phone
On a small screen the podium turns into three compact rows (medal, class, name, place and the Signal bar), so it doesn't push the ladder three screens down. The rows below are the same cards as before, now with the Signal bar and the status pill.
Tabs instead of one long page
The leaderboard now has three tabs: aircraft receivers, ship receivers, and receivers that feed us without an owner. If you run an AIS station and came from the AIS page, you land straight on the ships ladder instead of scrolling past every aircraft receiver first. Old links to #sky and #water open the matching tab.
A station's own page
Each station page got the same treatment. The top is now one card in its band's colour: the Signal class in large type, the station's facts as small chips (status, band, country and nearest city, how long it has fed, who runs it), the Signal bar, and its place on the ladder, which links back to the right tab. Today's numbers sit at the bottom of the card. On a phone the tab strip is a single row you can swipe instead of three rows of buttons.
The people behind the antennas
Owners now appear the way the game shows them everywhere else: their avatar in their rank frame, the glow they picked in the Trident Exchange, their name in its style, their title and prestige stars. In the ladder each row keeps it short (framed avatar and name); the podium and a station's own page show the full set. A station whose owner turned the credit off still shows nobody.
Links that look like your station
Paste a station link into Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp or X and it now unfurls as a card drawn for that station: its Signal class, its place on its band's ladder, uptime, streak, what it heard, and the owner with their glow and prestige stars. The leaderboard link gets a card with the top three of each band. The cards redraw themselves when the numbers change, so an old link doesn't keep showing last week's place. There's a ↗ Share button at the top of every station page for exactly this.
Nothing about how Signal is calculated changed. If your antenna is feeding and you want it on this page, connect it here. The ranking rewards keeping a receiver running, not where it stands.