Posted on 10/08/2010 6:56:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Just asking. Liked seeing how many people had viewed a particular thread.
*nod* - I liked that feature.
Yeah, me too.
It’ll probably come back when the freeper poll does
Hey, you’re right! I didn’t notice it was gone. But, I really did like it.
Just wanted to say...I viewed your post.
ONE!
What about the “Activity” tab?
That was my favorite way to view the latest articles of the day.
I’m for it. Loved seeing how many looked at an article.
Why is it gone?
No idea why Mr. Robinson got rid of it. It was a good and interesting feature.
I miss it too.
Why is it gone?My guess is the reporting the "thread views" on each thread requires more computing power, and might therefore slow down the other activities here.
What say you, JR?
I like to see the “Views” (not “The View”) too.
That sort of feature requires a database update transaction every time someone views or refreshes a page. A typical database can handle multiple concurrent read transactions but update transactions have to be handled one at a time. Updating a counter in the database every time a page is displayed causes multiple page requests to queue up and get serviced sequentially instead of concurrently. In plain English, it makes the site faster to not have view counters.
FR is limping along and a server is down. We had two crashes in June and the last one wiped out the activity tab and the views feature. Jim Robinson has said that they are going to fix....never got a ‘when’ that will be though. Very frustrating imo
I guess that is the situation with the ‘Popular Articles’ tab too, which I have top and center on the page.
That sort of feature requires a database update transaction every time someone views or refreshes a page. A typical database can handle multiple concurrent read transactions but update transactions have to be handled one at a time. Updating a counter in the database every time a page is displayed causes multiple page requests to queue up and get serviced sequentially instead of concurrently. In plain English, it makes the site faster to not have view counters.
The 'database' idea is only valid when the 'view' counted is unique (i.e. one user-view). A non-unique counting is much easier to do as all you have to do is display the number of times the server has 'served' that particular file. {Though it would be a valid question for a server developer to ask 'do I need to save this [the number of times a file is requested] information?'}
yes!
“the last one wiped out the activity tab”
Ahhh, I was wondering about that now-gone feature.
Thanks for your reply. Didn’t see it at first.
I was wondering about the “Activity” tab.
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