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kaffeplet

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 5

Forum thread views counter

I have noticed that the view counter increases each time i refresh the page of a post. I suggest changing this, such that the view counter only increases once when a user has read the thread.
I think this gives a more realistic understanding of how many has read the thread.

Edit: s/post/thread/g

Last edited by kaffeplet (2015-03-31 10:51:45)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Forum thread views counter

It's a thread view counter, not a post view counter.
How exactly do you expect this to work? Your suggestions should go upstream anyway.

kaffeplet

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 5

Re: Forum thread views counter

Thanks karol, i changed the thread title

The thread count should only increase once per user - the user can read the thread multiple times without increasisng the count.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Forum thread views counter

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186828
You suggest that instead of incrementing a number, there should be created a list of user IDs for each created (and split) thread? Are non-registered users getting a unique ID?

kaffeplet

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 5

Re: Forum thread views counter

The thread count should only be incremented if the user did not read the thread earlier. There are many ways to implement this.