Enabling views on the topics?

[tectonny]

I found which enables, when opening a topic the old version shows how many times it was viewed.

But how SMF 2.1?

I already use the beta 2.

[Illori]

seems that was removed, so it is not just enabling a feature to add it back.

since you can see the number of times a topic has been viewed on the message index and it is not always very accurate i dont see the advantage of adding that back in the message view.

[tectonny]

For me it's important.
Could you provide some coding to bring back function?

[Kindred]

you do know that the statistic is completely bogus?

If a person opens the thread 4 times, that counts a 4 views.
If a spider-bot crawls the message 3 times, that counts as 3 views

-- so the view count has no actual relationship to the number of users who have actually viewed the topic.

[br360]

you do know that the statistic is completely bogus?

If a person opens the thread 4 times, that counts a 4 views.
If a spider-bot crawls the message 3 times, that counts as 3 views

-- so the view count has no actual relationship to the number of users who have actually viewed the topic.

Yes and no. I noticed that If a person opens a thread, and keeps opening it, it only counts as one view. In order for them to have the views of that topic increase, they would have to go open a different topic on the forum, and then come back to the first one and open it again. 

Of course the views could still be skewed, but a person can't just open a topic and keep on pressing refresh a bunch of times to increase views of it.

[Kindred]

that is correct....   but I could "bot" it so that each bot hit is a fresh browser session (which is, essentially what the spider bots do)
and, it is simple enough to bookmark a thread, view another topic and then click the bookmark after every other page view...   

basically, as I noted, the number is actually pretty much bogus. (I will back down from the statement of it being "completely" so...)

[live627]

For me it's important.
Could you provide some coding to bring back function?

Display.template.php

find

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<p>',$txt['started_by'],' ', $context['topic_poster_name'],', ', $context['topic_started_time'],'</p>';

replace with

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<p>',$txt['started_by'],' ', $context['topic_poster_name'],', ', $context['topic_started_time'],'&nbsp;<span>(', $context['num_views_text'], ')</span></p>';

[tectonny]

It worked perfectly.