Thanks for all you are doing for the Steemit Community. I have watched several of your interviews.
Can you figure out how to add a counter to the markdown? Or a little HTML script that will work on the platform. This would be huge to see how many users actually view our posts. It could be a third party post view counter or something off the blockchain where you could see the stats. But this would be awesome to see the views. A lot of users have been talking about this feature. Thanks in advance for anything you can do to help us out.
That would be a helpful feature for a lot of users!
Sadly I did in fact code such a counter, but it did not work due to the image proxy used here on steemit.
The good news is that @dantheman and friends have stated they're working on this feature themselves so there'll be no need for external sites to provide it.
Hey .. thanks. I paid a guy to come up with a non script versions of a counter and he spent a couple of days trying every trick he could think of. He said the site does not allow the HTML tags needed for it to work. Steemit had done this for a reason.
Page views would be a huge help for testing a lot of post techniques.
The way I had it implemented was a single image - you just insert it like any other image and it uses the HTTP referrer URL.
Problem is the image proxy used here on steemit means no referrer URL and thus no way to track which post it is.
ok.. thank you for trying. I will be waiting, as will many others, for Steemit to allow this or add this on their own.
It is possible to do it without unique visitors - i.e counting ALL views, not just unique views. This could be done by generating a new image URL for each post and we could have trivially added it into the editor.
Unique visitors are tracked using cookies - which don't pass through the image proxy. Since we can't track unique views the idea has been dropped as not being very useful.