Leaderboard broken, streams aren’t correctly counted

Why Stats.fm Leaderboards Are Broken

The streaming leaderboards on stats.fm are currently plagued by a combination of artificial stream manipulation and ongoing technical bugs. The integrity of the rankings is primarily ruined by stream farming, where users leave tracks playing 24/7 via bots or slient streaming. Because stats.fm lacks an anti-farming cap on daily listening hours, these inflated accounts dominate the leaderboards and severely disrupt the app's algorithm for recommending genuinely similar users. Additionally, the platform suffers from chronic synchronization bugs; legitimate listeners who meet all requirements to rank often mysteriously fail to appear on the lists despite having verified, superior stream counts. The interface itself is also highly unstable, with users frequently experiencing infinite loading cycles or frustrating errors claiming the app "couldn't find any users with streams".

How to Fix and Improve the Rankings

• Implement Listening Caps: To restore credibility, developers need to introduce realistic daily listening limit that automatically stop counting streams at a certain time.

• Overhaul Data Syncing: They must also repair their backend infrastructure so that legitimate, imported streaming data accurately updates the global leaderboards without crashing the user interface.