Number of topic views - 0

[EliraFriesnan]

3 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

THEY RAN OUT OF POSTS TO CLICK "LIKE". 

No, It's a lot of posts I still didn't "like". But then again, it's so off-topic, but still you're allowed to post off-topic, so why would I not be allowed to do the same?

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No off topic from me again because I respect the forum users!

Edited January 7 by EliraFriesnan
No off topic from me again because I respect the forum users!

[NotHereToPlayGames]

14 minutes ago, EliraFriesnan said:

I also think there was a hidden reason to disable topic views. As already stated by @Monroe.

Agreed.  "Liked".

[Dave-H]

This thread has run its course, and has just set off a lot of bickering with no good purpose.
Now locked.

[Dave-H]

I have unlocked this thread by request, as hopefully there will now be more information about this issue added to it.

If it descends into personal bickering between members again or goes off-topic, it will be locked again immediately.

[AstroSkipper]

Today, I have opened a new topic called "MSFN and its lack of search results in Google, Bing, and all search engines depending on them". Now, there are 4 replies but 0 views. Here is a screenshot about this well-known issue:

And this means nothing has been resolved for months. The forum software is buggy or no longer maintained. And BTW, the forum editor is also very buggy, and the statistics on the main site is completely outdated and no longer current. So, a lot has to be fixed by @xper and @Tripredacus. 

Edited Saturday at 10:56 AM by AstroSkipper

[AstroSkipper]

And today the same, 20 replies and 0 views:


The "views" used to always work. @Tripredacus Or did you deliberately turn it off so it wouldn't count anymore? Anyway, what's going on here? 

Edited Saturday at 01:48 PM by AstroSkipper

[AstroSkipper]

Ok, I’m now in a position to pinpoint the error, bug or whatever setting has been set. After two days of zero views, today there’s a number other than zero: 55 replies and 694 views:



It seems to be the case that the forum software counts views of posts only periodically. Of course, this is just a theory that has yet to be proven. I hope this might be helpful. 

Edited Sunday at 08:31 AM by AstroSkipper

[NotHereToPlayGames]

I'm not sure about here at MSFN because I've only observed this effect on other forums AFTER it was no longer "counting" properly here at MSFN.

Other forums have a "one count" for folks not logged in and a "two count" for folks that are logged in.

I've seen that on forums that "count" how many times an attached image is "viewed".

Forum software of all kinds seems to have their own set of flaws (ie, a thread that is counted differently than the images posted inside that thread).

[AstroSkipper]

4 hours ago, AstroSkipper said:

It seems to be the case that the forum software counts views of posts only periodically. Of course, this is just a theory that has yet to be proven. I hope this might be helpful. 

I can confirm that the forum software counts views of posts only periodically. What kind of periods I can't say. The first period, after creating the thread about "MSFN and its lack of search results in Google, Bing, and all search engines depending on them", was two days, but today, it updated the views twice with a distance of some hours. Now, there are 70 replies and 973 views:

[NotHereToPlayGames]

3 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

I can confirm that the forum software counts views of posts only periodically.

That's actually reassuring.  The over-time count is more important than a "real-time" count.  I am suprised that it isn't "real-time".

But what that does tell us is that all of our *FAKE* MEMBERS with a "0 count" for SIX MONTHS are indeed *** FAKE *** accounts - *axe 'em all !!!  without prejudice*

[AstroSkipper]

19 minutes ago, AstroSkipper said:

I can confirm that the forum software counts views of posts only periodically. What kind of periods I can't say. The first period, after creating the thread about "MSFN and its lack of search results in Google, Bing, and all search engines depending on them", was two days, but today, it updated the views twice with a distance of some hours. Now, there are 70 replies and 973 views:

Ok. New theory. New topic views seem to be counted after two days, but then more frequently. I don't know if it is then real-time but here are new results: 70 replies and 985 views:

Edited Sunday at 01:35 PM by AstroSkipper