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Re: ....counter? - Turn it on
By:Tor-Henrik Furmyr
Date: 12/1/1998, 10:40 am
In Response To: Re: What happened to the counter? (Nick Schade)

> The new version of the script let me turn it off, which I did. The counter
> (views=#) is processor intensive, it has to rewrite the whole database
> each time you look at a post. While I liked seeing how many people read a
> message too, I thought it would be better to keep the BBS as responsive as
> possible. If people realy like the counter, I can turn it back on. It is
> not as if the BBS was really getting slow.

I vote for turning it on again. I normally surf when most of you folks are at work, and haven't had anything negative to say about the boards response-time.

Totto

Messages In This Thread

What happened to the counter?
Brian C. -- 11/30/1998, 12:46 pm
Re: What happened to the counter?
dave carter -- 12/5/1998, 5:06 pm
Re: What happened to the counter?
Nick Schade -- 12/1/1998, 9:04 am
Re: I liked it!
Roger Tulk -- 12/5/1998, 5:42 pm
Re: What happened to the counter?
Mike Spence -- 12/1/1998, 11:56 am
Re: Anyone else want the views counter turned on?
Nick Schade -- 12/2/1998, 8:39 am
I won't lose any sleep if you don't.
Mike Spence -- 12/2/1998, 10:59 pm
I don't
Jon K. -- 12/2/1998, 10:15 am
Re: ....counter? - Turn it on
Tor-Henrik Furmyr -- 12/1/1998, 10:40 am