How are the Number of Views Determined?

[spacesurfer]

It seems when a member views a topic, the number of times a topic is viewed is increased by 1. If you view the topic again, it will not increase.

But what about for guests? When a guest views a topic several times, will the number of views increase accordingly?

I know that in some forums, the number of views increases even if the viewer is a member. Thus, this number is a false indicator of the real number of views.

Just curious...

Edited June 20, 2007 by spacesurfer

[N1K]

That's a feature of this board since in this way the MSFN DB is exonerated.

Update Topic Views Immediately If enabled, the topic views counter will be updated as one loads a topic. If not enabled, the topic views will be written to another table and the topic views updated every 3 hours. This will significantly reduce overhead on the topics table if you have a very busy board as it overcomes the write lock initiated when the topic counter is updated.