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Site Update: View Counts

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sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

Bitchin. I take it that it's starting right now and not retroactive since I have posts with more comments than views. Is there a way to make it only count unique views? I mean you and I having a conversation ten views, it's two views ten comments.

reckoner said 3 months ago ...

right, it's not retroactive.

"Is there a way to make it only count unique views?"

It's not easy. What's a unique view? What I mean is that people normally count it over a certain time. Unique this week, unique, this month, etc. doing something like that is a lot more work. I could probably do unique over a week, What that means is if you view this post 10 times this week it will only count as 1. If you view it 5 times next week that will count as another 1. Or I could do that same thing, but by day. I hope that makes sense.

grapekoolaid said 3 months ago ...

Nice. Good stats to keep track of. Yet another layer you keep adding on here. Good work man.

sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

I see the problem and it was mostly a question more so than a request. I would define a unique view as a new person looking at it but I get from a programming angle that something as simple as my switching what computer I'm on would register me as a new viewer and potentially a bunch of people in one office would all show up as the same person. There are probably better uses of your time. Like tweaking the way it wants to make numbers into a list forcing us to protect our precious numbers lest they either vanish or format things in a way few of us seem interested in.

reckoner said 3 months ago ...

yeah, I can fix those number issues. I thought I did already, are you still having problems with it?

sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

I did a few days ago. I haven't tried anything similar since though so lets check.

  1. I'm me. This should be in a smaller font and indented.

This should be regular

  1. I put a two here but if should be a one and this should be indented. Lets see.
reckoner said 3 months ago ...

Ok, I definitely need to limit it to unique per day.

sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

Well whoa slow down abit her. I did that post just to check the programing. I might not have learned everything from the book yet but I have picked up somethings. The point here was that here is what I posted (with some changes to protected it.

I did a few days ago. Blah blah blah (1) I'm me. This should be indented It was as you can see in my previous post. This should be regulare (it was) (2) I put a two here. Blah blah. (I did and it was turned into a one because my hypothesis on how the program treats numbers seems to be correct)

So at the moment the numbers problem is partially removed from the individual users issues. If I'm not being specific enough I'll try to give you something more direct.

reckoner said 3 months ago ...

Yes, I understand what you're saying. The problem is that it's not my code that does that, it's a library I use. Changing that library is hard so :/

sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

Ah. Then I apologize. It's still nice understanding why something happens. I can work around a system once I understand it's rules but it's much harder when I don't entirely understand what's going on. To be fair I knew it ate numbers for a while and occasionally forgot.

sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

The bar at the top is new also no?

reckoner said 3 months ago ...

Just added it :). I still need to tweak it some

sean_renaud said 3 months ago ...

Hadn't noticied anything wrong with it. Had only noticed that it was there and I didn't recall it from before.

reckoner said 3 months ago ...

It's a little messed up on mobile devices.

d6fer said 3 months ago ...

cool!

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