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RE: Why Did Steemit's 'View Count Feature' Disappear? 👁️ Reasons To Re-Implement It
As much as I appreciate your views on this @surfermarly but there were two reasons due to which I could accept this change.
- The view count feature was flawed. Everytime you refresh your own post, you add one more view to the total count. So anyone can refresh their own posts unlimited number of times to make it look like their post has been visited by multiple users. Giving a false impression to the reader or a visitor.
- Also, many people use alternative apps to create and post content like @dtube or @utopian-io or @dlive. So the views, the post is getting inside those apps is not considered by Steemit. Hence, the view count is incorrect in that sense as well.
But removing it was not the solution. Instead as you mentioned they could restrict it with 1 view considered per ip address. But again that could be tweaked as well with code or bots. Not sure if there is a technical limitation to implement it. I miss it sometimes but don't care about it too much. :-D Cheers!
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Cool advice, thanks! Will do that :-)
Regarding your first comment: I fully agree that if it was ever implemented again, it’d need to be safe. To be honest I didn’t even know one was able to manipulate the counter by hitting the F5 button. As a serious blogger you don’t even think about such options to be honest, haha :-))
Again, thanks for the addings - they’re much appreciated!