On 7/13/15 3:56 PM, Wayne Witzel III wrote: > 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. >
Ok that's a good point. If there is some reason to keep them, we should. It shouldn't be hard to fix the bug, I was just looking for the opportunity to delete more code :) I've filed a ticket for fixing the bug: https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/tickets/7930/ -- Dave Brondsema : [email protected] http://www.brondsema.net : personal http://www.splike.com : programming <><
