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Get rid of (Times Read) in Title Bar

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emanuele:
I find the number of views the less useful information you can have while reading a topic...
Well...it all depends on "how" you actually reach the topic: if you come from MessageIndex, UnreadReplies or Unread then you already know that information. The only way it *could* be "interesting" is if you arrive to the topic from a search engine.

If you are thinking about SEO...the number of views is probably the less important factor:

--- Code: --- <img src="http://media.simplemachinesweb.com/smf/default/images/topic/normal_post.gif" alt="" align="bottom">
<span id="author">Author</span>
Topic: Get rid of (Times Read) in Title Bar &nbsp;(Read 79 times)

--- End code ---
this is what is inside the h3 tag (75% of this (an image, the word "author", the word "topic" the number of times the topic has been read) has nothing to do with the topic itself).

So, if you want some stats about the topic it would be better to have them in a separated box (maybe at the same level of "« previous next »") I think, but that's more Ant's field. :P

Kindred:
oh, I agree that it does not belong as part of the h3 tag....   but it IS useful information. :)

Antechinus:
Ha. Piffle n bollocks. No way am I making an extra box for that stuff. :P

It is not useful information. See, I can make assertions too. I don't care how many times a topic has been viewed. If it looks interesting, I'll read it.

Yoshi:
It's only useful 1/100 time you view a topic, so why stuff it in the title? Why not create a nice collapsible box called "Topic info" and store the information in there?

Antechinus:
Because it's a waste of markup and css and js, and is just something else to clutter the gui?

The number of views is already shown on the message index, and on the unread and replies templates. How many times do you want to show the same number all over the forum? What benefit is there in it?

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