Posted by 'View Count' on Posts

Lion Tamer (#48364)

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Posted on
2015-05-04 17:50:00
Whenever I post a topic, I always want to be able to know if people have even opened my topic. It gives me an idea of how many people were interested in it, but maybe changed their minds.

Also, I just think it would be a neat feature. My suggestion is that each 'view' will be counted per player who has opened the post, not per opening of any player (meaning that Player A won't open a post 4 times and stack up the counter to 4 views, so it would have to take 4 separate Players). Also, the counter would exclude the person who was the poster.

I was thinking it would be something like this (note, it would either say 'seen by' or view count'):

photo view count_zpsac1nvrba.png

Any thoughts?



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Edited on 05/05/15 by Lion Tamer (#48364)

Tortuga (#54751)

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Posted on
2015-05-04 18:26:24
While its a nice thing to know how many people see your posts, I don't really think this is necessary, since view counters can easily be added to a forum post. There are IP specific counters too so you can see how many people have opened the page, rather than how many times it has been opened in total. (Quick google search will give you loads of view counter codes to paste in your forums)
I'm also not sure how much coding it would be to implement it site-wide, but if it doesn't take much, it could be a low priority side project if they get bored of their bigger projects?



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Lia-Lin
(Sunset|4xCimm|G2) (#36246)

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Posted on
2015-05-04 18:26:36
Definitely! It seems like a neat feature to have! And I'm always wondering this on posts that don't get any comments! It might be hard because how would it count the amount of views on an existing post. Or, if it was added would all existing posts just start from 0?



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Lion Tamer (#48364)

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2015-05-04 18:29:13
@Tortuga Yeah, I was thinking this would be a side-project, but I still think it would be cool :)



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