On Mon, Jul 13, 2015, at 03:40 PM, Dave Brondsema wrote: > I've noticed project mod dates get updated when a forum thread is viewed. > I > think this is because we have a view_count on threads. We already have a > few > workarounds to prevent view_count changes from propagating too much and > it looks > like we'll need another. > > Or would it be better to remove view counts? I am thinking it would be > since > doing a write action just for a view is causing these problems. It would > remove > a feature that we've had since the beginning of Allura, but I don't know > how > useful it is. Especially since the "views" can easily be wrong due to > googlebot > or just someone hitting the refresh button a zillion times. > >
I generally find view counts useful. When searching, if I receive many results, I tend to go through them based on Last Updated and/or View Count. > Existing workarounds: > > https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/git/ci/ca2233e3c25a177d0ef651f49fed1ead67212035/ > > https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/git/ci/af4d036acd7a63ccde241be69945cc5a66155e4b/ > > -- > Dave Brondsema : [email protected] > http://www.brondsema.net : personal > http://www.splike.com : programming > <><
