Sorry, can you elaborate? I’m not sure I follow... You mean how many people have viewed a thread, or something like that?
The thing on the menu is the people who are connected, in the sense that if you posted, you would see it immediately. There’s an option to disconnect, like it used to be, so actually the real number of users is likely a bit more than the number shown.
Correct, how many views.
Right, yes I mean I have thought about it, but it involves some technical complications that essentially reduce the scalability of the website. So it means on every read, I’d have to update the database. Updates are quite expensive in terms of computing power, and given AI stuff repeatedly attacks and blasts threads with reads, that makes handling that more difficult, but at the same time also renders the numbers fairly useless, as it’s not people reading things.
I suppose I could do reads by only logged in users though. Never really thought about it that way.
AI is shit, I get it. Not really important but is more of a nerd thing.
There are ways. I mean I have to get a bit technical, I can hold counts in memory, which assuages the cost of writing to the DB if you accept that some numbers get lost during starts and stops. If people are interested and want it, I can do it.
The only way it makes sense is if its people and not bots. Costs are also a big deal so no need to add to the $$$.
Interesting stuff.
I set up this poll to test out. I didn’t want to see the results that were in process so that worked but I did allow editing until closing but can’t?
Personally I would be fine if bookmarks auto-updated.
Okay, a few more things in response to suggestions upthread or on the other one:
Pagination data on the links
[Esc] takes focus off of the editor
The main menu is now the only ‘sticky’ bit, not the site name / board name / thread title. I don’t think there was a good reason there, so thanks for the feedback, as it seems all upside
Not sure I follow, but I think we’re maybe mixing up a couple of concepts:
That there’s an option to edit the poll options for a period before voting starts
And, that users can change their votes when the poll is running—which is what you have set
it’s not really practical/workable to allow editing of poll options while the poll is running, because you’d be potentially:
Deleting people’s votes
Adding options they might have voted for if they’d seen them
Editing the meaning of something they did vote for, that might change their vote
etc.