Add a milestone and track its result

Automatic game update milestones

MARPLA checks connected games' public data in the background without an open page or a private analytics key. Each game is checked at most once per 15 minutes; queueing and Roblox limits may delay checks. The first successful snapshot establishes a baseline without inventing history.

A later Roblox update timestamp creates an Update milestone at that timestamp; detection time is stored separately. Name, description, icon, images, genre and server size are also tracked. Repeated checks do not duplicate a milestone.

Roblox failures preserve the previous snapshot. The public update timestamp provides no changelog and cannot guarantee detection of intermediate releases between checks. Events appear in Milestones and on charts with the Update type enabled.

Milestones directly on a chart

Add milestone in the list header creates a record manually. To tie it to an observation exactly, click the chart point itself or its small hit area: clicks between points create nothing, while MARPLA carries the selected observation's exact date and time into the form. Date and title are shared, while one milestone may contain up to twenty items, each with its own type, text, expected effect and result.

Expected effect offers Playtime, Returning players, More revenue, Better conversion or Other. Name a custom effect to store it with the milestone and reuse it in this game. Enter a free-form explanation below the category; existing descriptions remain unchanged.

In the popup the category is the heading and the explanation appears beneath it. The milestone card stays above the chart value tooltip. Price change is built in; after choosing Other, a custom type can be named and the saved name appears in that game's type list.

Line breaks are preserved exactly. Uploaded images appear as thumbnails immediately and can be removed or dragged into the required order; that order is preserved in the hover card. Hovering the dot on a milestone line shows the full title, description, type, and time without truncation, plus every item, effect and image; the word “Manual” and a separate editing hint are not displayed.

Clicking a manual milestone still opens it for editing. Save remains visible and turns green only after required fields are complete or an existing milestone has actually changed. A manual milestone can also be edited or deleted in the table; open charts refresh their markers immediately after saving.

Every item in the milestone popup

Hover over a milestone dot. The nearest popup edge stays 50 px from the pointer. Positioning uses the actual text and image dimensions: short cards stay close and long cards retain the gap at the bottom of the viewport.

Near the viewport edge it flips to the other side; on narrow screens it opens above or below with internal scrolling, never covering the pointer. Text and effects appear exactly as entered, including line breaks, blank lines and indentation. Interface translation never rewrites user text.

The popup includes every item: type, full multiline text, its own effect and a compact result — a green check, red cross or grey dash. Scroll inside a long card; the chart no longer clips its list. Images retain their saved order.

The card stays open while the pointer is inside; the corner close button or Escape dismisses it. With a keyboard, select a marker with Tab, then press Arrow Down to focus and scroll the popup.

Milestone filters, offsets and colours

The selected milestone types are remembered in this browser separately for each game and chart. Reloading, changing the date range and reopening Milestones do not reset the selection. All milestones selects every type; clearing it hides all markers.

New types are not automatically enabled in a custom selection. D1, D7 and D30 retention charts shift milestone dots and dashed lines forward by 1, 7 and 30 days respectively, including breakdown charts. Only the display moves: the original stored and editable date stays unchanged, and the tooltip shows both dates.

Shifted markers are always blue. On other charts, all Yes items produce green, all No items red, and all unset items grey. Any combination of different results, including unset items, produces yellow.

Automatic milestones without a result are grey. Both the dot and dashed line use the outcome colour. The P50–P90 band remains visible without a separate caption above the chart.

Each item's effect and result

Type and expected effect have no duplicate input. Other opens a new name input; after leaving the field or pressing Enter, the name remains only in the menu and is reusable in other items. Images in the editor, table and popup retain their full original aspect ratio without cropping.

Edit a milestone, enter a separate effect for each item, and choose Yes — worked or No — did not work. The Result column shows a green check or red cross with a label. Choose Not set to clear the outcome.

Existing and new items without a selected result stay neutral: an unset outcome is not a failure. Each item, its effect and result share one table row, including when text wraps across multiple lines; effects are never concatenated. Chart hover cards also show a separate effect and outcome icon for each item.

The date, title and images remain shared by the milestone. Press Save to persist changes across reopening.

Open a game's milestones directly

Select Milestones on a game card in My games to open that game's list without loading every analytics chart. Add or edit items, effects, results and images according to your permissions. All my games returns to the cards.

The direct link retains the selected game after a page reload. Acquisition source comparison has one heading and guide link, a calendar beside the period controls, and Combined sources first among the line buttons. Duplicate source tiles are removed; their values remain available in chart tooltips.

This chart's Milestones button opens the same type filter used by other charts. Milestones and notes in the game menu opens a dedicated list under the shared heading, with Milestones and Notes tabs inside. Other pages no longer repeat the list.

Go to milestones in a chart tooltip opens this page for the same game. Chart-based creation and editing remain available.