[Forum] user clicks on thread, counter is incremented - again, again..

Stalafin · 2007-11-26 18:51:05

The following is definitely a minor problem, but you might want to change it in the board's software: say I just visited a thread, return to the forum and click on the thread again. The counter will increment, even if the time in between was only a few seconds.

The same happens, if I create a topic and click on it several times.

Maybe there should be some time in between? Say, the counter is reactivated after the session of the user on the server ends and a new session is created when he comes back...?

No big deal of course, but this could be confusing....

Cerebral · 2007-11-26 18:53:23

"the counter"? What counter do you speak of?

Stalafin · 2007-11-26 19:28:23

Sorry, I am talking about the Views-counter. The amount of views one thread received.

hussam · 2007-11-26 19:51:34

Cerebral, I think he wants the 'view count' to be incremented once per user per login session of that user

Cerebral · 2007-11-26 20:03:20

Yeah, once he said views-counter it kinda clicked in my mind. On one hand, it's reasonable to say "If somebody looks at this thread, then looks at it again 1 minute later, that's not two separate views". However, on the other hand, I wonder how many people sit on one thread reloading it over and over. I know I use the "show new posts since last visit" functionality to keep track of that for me, and if there's a thread I really want to watch, I subscribe to it.

Snowman · 2007-11-27 08:06:30

There is no options to change that. It is a minor issue as I don't think many users take notice about the exact number of views count. I think it is mainly there so that if you don't get any answer, it gives you an idea if it's because very few users read your post or if it's because no one knows the answer.

iphitus · 2007-11-27 09:24:52

i think it's a "feature" of punbb. to make it any more 'accurate' it'd start gettin quite complex.

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#1 2007-11-26 18:51:05

[Forum] user clicks on thread, counter is incremented - again, again..

#2 2007-11-26 18:53:23

Re: [Forum] user clicks on thread, counter is incremented - again, again..

#3 2007-11-26 19:28:23

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