fix: improve follower growth calculation and error handling in user data loading

Author: shihabhasan0161

docs/script.js

@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ function getSortedUsers(sortBy) {
         'followers-desc': (a, b) => b.followers - a.followers,
         'followers-asc': (a, b) => a.followers - b.followers,
         'followers-growth-desc': (a, b) => (b.followers_growth_pct ?? -Infinity) - (a.followers_growth_pct ?? -Infinity),
-        'followers-growth-asc': (a, b) => (a.followers_growth_pct ?? -Infinity) - (b.followers_growth_pct ?? -Infinity),
+        'followers-growth-asc': (a, b) => (a.followers_growth_pct ?? Infinity) - (b.followers_growth_pct ?? Infinity),
         'following-desc': (a, b) => b.following - a.following,
         'following-asc': (a, b) => a.following - b.following,
         'repos-desc': (a, b) => b.repos - a.repos,
@@ -688,9 +688,9 @@ function buildCardElement(user) {
 
     // Display followers growth
     if (user.followers_growth_pct > 0) {
-        const growth = document.createElement('span');
+        const growth = document.createElement('div');
         growth.className = 'growth-indicator';
-        growth.textContent = ` Followers Growth (since last week): (+${user.followers_growth_pct}%)`;
+        growth.textContent = `Followers Growth (since last week): (+${user.followers_growth_pct}%)`;
         box.appendChild(growth);
 
     }

fetch.py

@@ -25,18 +25,20 @@
 WEEK_SECONDS = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 # for trending feature
 
 def load_previous_users(path: str = "./docs/users.json") -> Dict[str, Dict[str, Any]]:
-    """
-    trending feature -> load previous users.json and index by login
-
-    to calcute the follower growth
+    """Load previous user data from a JSON file and index it by login.
+    This is used to calculate follower growth for the trending feature.
     """
     if not os.path.exists(path):
         return {}
     try:
         with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
             users = json.load(f)
-        return {u.get("login"): u for u in users if "login" in u}
-    except Exception:
+        if not isinstance(users, list):
+            logger.warning(f"Data in {path} is not a list, returning empty dict.")
+            return {}
+        return {u["login"]: u for u in users if isinstance(u, dict) and "login" in u}
+    except (IOError, json.JSONDecodeError) as e:
+        logger.warning(f"Failed to load or parse previous users from {path}: {e}")
         return {}