Number of views... important?

I'm fixing a couple of minor little issues with the next version of the forums and I was wondering... do you think anyone cares how many times a thread has been viewed? It's a common feature in some other forums, but I wasn't sure anyone actually cared that a topic was viewed x number of times.

Hopefully today or this week I'll have the new version up in beta form (meaning you get the first chance to break it). Don't look for any significant new features, or even some of the old features, because they aren't done yet. I just want to get the basics up and testing post-haste. It's a total re-write from the ground up, so things will be quite different on the back end, even if they don't look different from where you're sitting.

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

Jeff- I really dont think people will really care how many times a post has been viewed...I think number of replies is adequate...just my input

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doesn't matter to me...all i really care about is how many replies...

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I don't care...as long as we can come together and discuss our favorite CP topics! :-)

ditto that. doesn't matter to me because the meat is in how many replies a post gets

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What goes up, up, up, must come down and up and down and upside down and around...

I never really noticed it before anyway so I say lose it.

I can't really think why that would be important, to be honest.

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TPFKAV
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I've personally never seen the "number of views" in a forum before, and frankly, I don't think it matters one bit. I think that most of us are content with number of replies, who started the thread, and what time the last post was made.

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Another ditto here....just number of replies is all I care about.

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I personally don't like the number of views. I don't see it's point really. What I think would be a good thing to see is a list of all the members so a person can access thier profile without having to look for them in the forums.

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Number of views is pretty useless. It might be useful to see from the topic list the time of the last addition to the thread, and possibly the name of the person who last added to the thread...

Why? Because the 'new post tracker' never works quite right, particularly if you switch browsers or whatever, and if it's a thread you're actively participating in, you can see that it hasn't gone anywhere if you're the last person to add to it... :)

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

The reason that I ask is that there are a lot of forums out there (UBB, vBulletin, etc.) that have lots of features that I think are, quite frankly, useless. Those stupid avatars are another one I find pointless. Every little thing you add affects performance, and I want the fastest out there.

Now that you explain a good reason for who made the last post, Dave, I think that's a good idea. May not make the beta but I'll have to strongly consider that one.

I think of the GTTP audience as being the good "average" Net user, not a junkie, computer nerd or whatever. Your opinion counts. ;)

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Jeff
Webmaster/GTTP, Sillynonsense.com
"As far as I can tell it doesn't matter who you are. If you can believe, there's something worth fighting for..." - Garbage, "Parade"

I'd agree that views isn't important. But I might like to see the name of the last person to reply to the thread.

Number of viewings is not important at all to me, it's just another useless feature that doesn't add to the experience.

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Jeff: Not sure if its possible but being able to mark a thread or section as read whil leaving the rest of the threads alone might be nice....

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Yeah.. I've always found that as a useless feature. I mean some may like it so you could set it as an admin switch option or something but as far as general public use.. It's a waste if you ask me..

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*** This post was edited by Red Garter Rob on 4/22/2002. ***

I don't care how many people have looked at it either. Usually I just go to "Most Recent Topics" and go right down the list since the last time I was on, so I "view" everything that's been discussed, no matter how popular it is...

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Replies only, Views are meaningless.

Wow... I'm surprised it's that unanimous. Out of curiosity, what other features (in other forums) do you find to be totally useless?

Avatars - actually any ranking of members by number of posts.

Also, I don't like the ability to "lock" certain topics at the top, regardless of the date of the last post. It's often used for announcements, but I find it annoying. That's a personal preference - maybe the feature has a use. I'd rather just see the thread with the newest reply at the top.

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