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Something's up with this metric post update. I've seen thread view numbers not budge since the weekend despite my clicks attempting to move the needle. Has what constitutes a view changed or is something amiss? thx
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One more question. Have guests been excluded from incrementing view counters?
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Been watching the top thread in the quartz sub-forum. Ordinarily, I would expect to see dozens of hits per day but the view count hasn't budged since the maintenance. I've clicked into that thread a number of times trying to influence the count. No change.
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as far as i can see it all works as it should.
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^ scratch that. it works ok for most threads, but not for some.
i'll have another look...
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after looking into the issue for too many hours, i think i've identified two possible causes for the view count not to be updated.
the problem seem to occur with:
1) threads that contain an [imgur] gallery
2) threads that have smilies in one or more posts
the first one, i have no clue about. an imgur gallery loads a bunch of javascript that might
mess up some functionality of the forum (but that's just a guess)
the second one might be fixable as it looks to be related to the custom mybb theme we use.
if i switch to the default theme, the view counts on those threads are updated properly.
perhaps there are other causes, but so far i've only found those two.
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Interesting. 1 & 2 are definitely common denominators in the problematic threads I've been monitoring.
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the problem with smilies has been fixed. that was indeed caused by a bug in our custom theme.
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the issue with imgur galleries has been fixed as well.
the mybb software didn't like the code we used to embed galleries, so i modified the code a bit to keep our forum happy.