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Forum Error - Number of Views increments everytime i see the same topic
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:46 am
by bluesaze
hey mod,
Not sure if its a error but shouldnt the number of views be unique. Every time i visit a thread the number of views increments. Isnt it supposed to increment only if a new person views the thread. ( I dont know i could be wrong) or only after the thread has been updated.
Re: Forum Error - Number of Views increments everytime i see the same topic
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:51 am
by brad
Maybe there are heaps of people/bots visiting the same thread??
Re: Forum Error - Number of Views increments everytime i see the same topic
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:06 am
by bluesaze
No i checked you try it just look at the number of views before looking up a thread then look up the thread .. then go back and see the number of views ....... you can keep doing this and every the number of views increments... even though you looked up before and no changes had been made to that thread
Re: Forum Error - Number of Views increments everytime i see the same topic
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:07 am
by brad
Maybe it counts as a view then...
Perhaps [unknow] (SMF dev) will be able to enlighten us.
Re: Forum Error - Number of Views increments everytime i see the same topic
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:26 am
by bluesaze
yeah ok .....
i get a feeling the views are getting counted everytime we check the page and there is no check to see if the user has already seen the page.
Re: Forum Error - Number of Views increments everytime i see the same topic
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:39 am
by TheSaint
It would be nice if at least the thread author's click-throughs didn't count as visits.
Re: Forum Error - Number of Views increments everytime i see the same topic
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:57 am
by bluesaze
By the way noticed that you guys are running a beta version of the forum.........so maybe its a bug and needs to be reported
Re: Forum Error - Number of Views increments everytime i see the same topic
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:38 pm
by [Unknown]
If you view multiple pages inside a topic, you will only add one view for the topic. Basically, if the last topic you viewed is the topic in question, you won't increment the number of views.
Otherwise, it will be incremented - whether you viewed it yesterday or not.
-[Unknown]