Question for Scott

[Michael]

Scott, I debated sending this to you as a private email, but was wondering if anyone else had noted the same thing. Everytime I look at a thread, the number of views goes up by at least two. Something wrong with the program or is it something at my end?

Regards,

Michael

[Michael]

Hi Scott,

Yeah somethings really messed up. I looked at the member list and ordered it to the ten most posters and it gave names that never post.

Michael

[Michael]

Actually forget about that last part, I justr had the ascending order wrong.

Mike

[Jonathan]

I think I know what is happening. I just looked at this thread when the count was 47, and went back to general discussion immediately to find it saying 51. Then I did it again and it only went up one. I think that as people are popping in and out of the site and looking at things for just a moment that sometimes people are looking at the same thing at the same time, so that the counts go up faster. This would occur even when the people online counter says there is no one but yourself, because people can come and go in less than 15 seconds, but it is accurate only to five minutes.

[Michael]

No, seriously jonathan go to a thread that hasn't been touched in a while. Click on it, then click on general dsicussion, and you'll see the meter has registered a count of two more.

Regards,

Michael


Hmmm, now they aren't going up at all. Scott must be playing with it at the moment.

[Jonathan]

I just did what you said twice (each on a different far back topic) and they both incremented correctly.

[MrTim]

Multiple increments? Maybe Joel Wright is involved somehow! ;)

[Michael]

Hi Jonathan,

I don't know, it's strange. After I wrote that I noticed that really old threads don't go up at all. Newer ones are still going up by two.

Regards,

Michael

[scott]

Hi Michael, sorry that the site doesn't seem to be working quite right for you. When I tried it the counts incremented correctly (like for Jonathan). I guess that it is possible that different people could see different behavior based on the details of their Internet connection or something, but it's hard for me to imagine just how that would happen. In any case, unless more people out there are seeing it, I'm going to go on the assumption that it's isolated problem.
Thanks,
Scott

[Michael]

Hmmm, okay Scott. All I know though is, I just sat not doing anything, and picked out the woodwork thread. I hit refresh and the numbers didn't go up. I then clicked on the thread and then immediately clicked to the general forum, and it went fro, 434 to 436.

Regards,

Michael