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Get rid of (Times Read) in Title Bar

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ModelTFan01:
One pet peeve of mine on SMF 2.0 is the (Times Read) in the title bar above the first post in a topic. It's quite annoying to me. In 3.0, I'd like for it to be removed and placed in a place they could have the stats for that topic.

Antechinus:
To fix it in 2.0.x:

Display.template.php:

Find:


--- Code: --- // Show the topic information - icon, subject, etc.
echo '
<div id="forumposts">
<div class="cat_bar">
<h3 class="catbg">
<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/topic/', $context['class'], '.png" align="bottom" alt="" />
<span id="author">', $txt['author'], '</span>
', $txt['topic'], ': ', $context['subject'], ' &nbsp;(', $txt['read'], ' ', $context['num_views'], ' ', $txt['times'], ')
--- End code ---

Replace:


--- Code: --- // Show the topic information - icon, subject, etc.
echo '
<div id="forumposts">
<div class="cat_bar">
<h3 class="catbg">
<img src="', $settings['images_url'], '/topic/', $context['class'], '.png" align="bottom" alt="" />
<span id="author">', $txt['author'], '</span>
', $txt['topic'], ': ', $context['subject'], '
--- End code ---

Kindred:
what's wrong with it?   I think it's a nice stat to have clearly displayed (as it is).  You want folks to have to make another click (and leave the message) in order to see it?   That's a silly idea, since the whole idea of a forum is to get people to read and respond to the actual messages, not the stats.

Antechinus:
IMHO (opinion warning here) it's like a lot of other stuff that SMF has inherited in the gui: useless clutter that distracts from the user experience.

Kindred:
hmmm....   I agree that there is a lot of clutter... 

and maybe the read count should not be actually part of the title itself (bad for seo)
however, I think that this bit is definitely NOT useless clutter nor does it distract...   because it is an important part of the user experience to knw how popular (for viewing, at least) a topic is.

(actually, if we're going to mod it, I'd like to see this parse UNIQUE views only)

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