I was the same way but there's so many cool features on PeakD I can't live without now. At first it was a bit overwhelming but I gradually got used to it. In settings, changing the api node, experimenting, usually speeds things up. View counter is great and even shows how much time is spent on average viewing but only I can see that info. It's not accurate lately though; I think they had problems. My recent post for instance only shows 20 views because the counter wasn't even on for most of the week so several weren't counted, but normally I'd get well over 100 within day one or two. Then I'll guesstimate and factor in all the other frontends. My last post was trending almost #1 all week on vyb so I'm sure that picked up some views. It also shows older posts getting clicks but again that info is private.
But I will say and remind you once again, there is integrity left in this world. Your posts where you're 'complaining' sometimes shed light on you being a bit out of touch at times. Just being honest with you.
Uhm, sounds good. So, I suppose I'll have to take a look at it. However, it seems to be a shame that it only works for posts that are only viewed and read from the Peakd front end.
Of course there is integrity in this world. The kind of integrity that resonates with what everyone has in their heads when it comes to making them think deeper and question things in a different way as they have been already learned.
I always shed light on me making everyone feels as I'm being a bit out of touch on everything. That's the only way to produce interesting debates that teach me something new.
And I know you are being honest with me. In the same way I'm honest with you too. :)
It would be interesting to have views tallied from across all frontends. But one of the 'reasons' they removed the counter from Steemit was because some would simply sit and hit F5 and each time the page reloaded, that would count as a 'view'.
As for the other stuff well, you do call yourself cranky and old. I don't think you're a bad guy. Just kind of weird sometimes.
but who isn't...
Yeah! that's true and I am well aware of this. However, I wonder why no one so far has deigned to review the code and make that functionality works as intended. Is it so difficult to achieve it? Or is there really no will to do it by those who can and should do it?
Even, five years ago, I was able to generate a simple code that promised to be able to do just that. But suddenly they changed something in the API and since no one encouraged me to continue developing it, I just decided to use it exclusively for myself while it still was working.
That's right! Everyone has their flamboyance. And mine along with my favorite weapons of mass confusion are the Cranky Humor jointly with some cryptic pictures and 60s/70s rare music to make people think harder about where they are standing in plain XXI century. :)
Man, people just buy views or find another way to exploit the system. Was looking at an example not so long ago of that very thing happening on Peakd and I bet he still does it, but I'll keep the who and where to myself since I want to monitor more closely. It's painfully obvious though.
I used to include an image in my signature and every blog post hit would register a view on the image hosting service, but then that stopped working.
The best indication is genuine engagement. Can't get that without first bringing in eyes.
Yep, leaving some tiny transparent and almost invisible images scattered through your posts and especially at the end of your posts was one of the dirty tricks that "The Omniscient Feature" used to track if your content had been unfolded fully. And through an external image storage service, the counter added one more view into the statistics only if the ip address that caused it was different. Not that it was perfect. Since not everyone would include images or sigs at the end of their articles. But I did use it only as a proof of concept.
I agree. But it's been too many years, even long before steemit and the existence of social networks on the blockchain. That I know that there are way more people who consume my content without daring to say a single word than those who actually do that but also comment and engage. Hahahaha
Hey man I'm sure my stuff is a guilty pleasure for some as well. It never bothered me though. Most of my stuff over the years has been arts and entertainment based. I've no problem with someone just coming into my shop to browse, maybe see a few things they like, then leave. No problem with that at all. Comes with the territory.
But I do and have been pushing for more focus placed on the consumption aspect, putting that before the content aspect. Trying to show folks that it's okay to earn a bit from a comment, rather than posting nonstop for nothing and no audience, then giving up. Can't fail as a content consumer. That role needs to be propped up and embraced. And another thing, what we're doing right now, talking; this is that microblogging stuff people keep saying we don't have here and need here. The comment section. That's where most folks talk on social media. But here it seems folks show up to post and want the big bucks; a comment that pays way more than anywhere else, is nothing, yet people love doing it for free, everywhere, all day, nonstop. It's so weird.
Yeah, what mainly motivates me to create content online usually is to create debate about what I have published. Too often seeking no one agrees with what I've exposed and give me the opportunity to learn something new.
I guess it's just a hobby of mine to try to create or gain consciousness. This is what I really find fun in social networks and what is really worth extracting from them. LoL
But I am afraid that when there is easy money to make, short time available and greed is involved in the human interaction, knowledge, awareness and learning takes a backseat and makes my hobby a bit too much of no use.
Youtube knows how to deal with that and i am sure there is open code to deal with F5 / CTRL Shift R freaks
I also moved to PEAKD recently i used to be like @por500bolos a die hard of fast loading stuff