Suggestions

Just to help tidy things up and give a little more room on the boards, I don't think we need the section which shows the number of times a thread has been viewed?

Maybe some people would disagree but I cannot see any purpose in this and it does not seem very accurate anyway. e.g. - there is one thread I saw which had been viewed 8132 times and yet had been replied to 21907 times - this does not make sense??

Is there any reason why anyone should need to know how many times their thread has been viewed? - surely, the most important thing is how many replies they have received and what amount of help they have received from those replies?

I think we could get rid of that section.

Dea x

No it looks bad if a post has had a lot of views but no replies...so here is one for you Dea so you dont feel ignored :-)

jax

Edit I also think perhaps when the views get to 99,999 it must go back to zero

Agreed - and also it would appear that the 'new post' icon is stuck. So for those of us who browse around, we can't spot if we've already read the thread.

But over all, the changes are to the good and just need a bit of tweaking.

I agree ................ the number of times viewed is more or less useless.

I think GR will have added the 'number of times viewed' bit because that is what other sites offer.


Sometimes it can be useful in that you can see that people have, at least, looked at the query even if they can't actually help.


Cx

People may have suggested it when GR had their survey, originally I didn't see the point of it but it may be useful if someone hasn't had a reply on their genealogy query. If their post is lost a few pages back and no one has looked at it , they may find this change useful useful as they may want to nudge the post up for people to see. ???

The number of views MAY only help those asking for info on people they are searching for but even then if you get a reply you have your info!! silly them numbers really

In my book - the viewed threads should way outnumber the replies. You cannot reply without viewing ... maybe I am being pedantic.

I will collect my coat on the way out the door. :-)

Persie

The number of views is useful to the seeker of the information because even if you have no replies then you can see that at least people are looking at your thread.

The number of views, in theory, should be greater than the number of replies but if you don't go out of the thread when you go looking for information and post your reply, then go off for more info and post this then the coding will not recognise that as 2 views because the page was not closed.

I have noticed on most of the long standing threads where the replies are in the 20,000s that the views are less than the replies so it must be that once its gets to a certain amount of views it starts back again at 1

jax

Does the 'views' record the total number of views or the number of different people who have viewed it?
The latter, possibly?

oh, surely it records the total number of views ..... whether that is by different people or the same people returning time and time again

I think it will record each time a thread is opened because that is the easiest code to implement rather than differeniating between members viewing. However, if a member enters a thread and opens a second tab in their browser to look for records and then pastes results in the thread this will not be recognised as a second view. Only if the thread is closed and reopened would it be recognised.

I suggest you actually open and close a thread and open and close the same thread and see if the view count increases.
It does not.

I agree with both TootyFruity's opinion and her interpretation of the counts:


The number of views is useful to the seeker of the information because even if you have no replies then you can see that at least people are looking at your thread.

The number of views, in theory, should be greater than the number of replies but if you don't go out of the thread when you go looking for information and post your reply, then go off for more info and post this then the coding will not recognise that as 2 views because the page was not closed.


;)

I also find it interesting to look for TTF threads that have been viewed many times and had few or no replies. Either a challenge or a hopeless case!

I see what you mean Patchem, and I stand corrected. They obviously went for the more complicated coding :-)