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[Sage]

Something funny goin’ on with the database, Jordan. It’s not a major issue at all, but I figure I should point it out, since it means something’s borked.

 

[daan]

I think the answer is that the views are only updated every hour or so, while the replies are done there and then.

 

[DuckRacer]

No, it wasn't like that before. When there was 1 view, and someone replied, it was bumped up to 2 views, and so on.

 

[amp88]

I'm probably wrong, but the way I thought it worked was that if someone entered the topic and replied, the number of replies was incremented by one and the views stayed the same, whereas if they enetered the topic and didn't reply, the number of views was incremented by one and the replies stayed the same. An either or situation not an and situation...

edit: Just posted in a thread and the number of views stayed the same whilst the number of replies increased by one (British police 'foil plot to kidnap Blair's youngest son' (AFP) in Current Events)

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After:

 

[Jordan]

daan is correct, thread views are only updated once every hour while replies are updated immediately.

 

[Sage]

Ah, okay. *Stores in mental vault*

 

[daan]

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[kart.no.38]

daan is correct, thread views are only updated once every hour while replies are updated immediately.

Why do you do it like that? Is it done for improved speed?

 

[daan]

As a guess, it's probably to ease the load on the server.

 

[Jordan]

Why do you do it like that? Is it done for improved speed?

Yes, GTPlanet averages around 41 page views per minute, with a lot of those coming from threads. As you can imagine, making changes to the database each time that happens puts a lot of extra strain on the server.

 

[Swift]

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Yeah...I've noticed...