Most popular thread at the moment mod?

[thenakedscientists]

This functionality may already exist; if so, can someone please point me towards it...

Specifically, I'm looking to offer a button that says "What's everyone looking at right now?" This will link dynamically to the thread that's been most active in the last x minutes, or has the most people looking at it in the last x minutes.

Does this function already exist? If not, what variables do I need to extract, and how, in order to code this up?

Thanks

[Steve]

https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=937 ?

[thenakedscientists]

Many thanks!

Do you, by any chance know how this measures "most popular" ?

Looking at the code changes in the install process, it looks like it's totting up posting totals. That could be helpful to me, but what I'm really after is a version of "who's viewing" - essentially I am looking to identify the thread that has the most people looking at it at any time so I can flag that up.

Can you point me in the right direction to do this please?

[Steve]

Unfortunately, I'm not a coder but you could ask in the mod's support thread. https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=194987.0

[thenakedscientists]

Thanks; I'll follow that up.

I'm a bit surprised that the function I'm highlighting doesn't exist, to be honest. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place...

[Steve]

There is a 'Top Ten Topics (by views)' if you click 'More Stats' in your forum stats in the Info Center. Don't know if that will help.

[Kindred]

Well, it's oretty much an irrelevant statistic, since it is artificially incrememented by search engines

[thenakedscientists]

Thanks both; I appreciate the point about search engines, but in a high-traffic site the spiders will be a smaller contribution than the visitors, and the spiders will be touching multiple pages, so my theory is that the human input will still be visible above this noise; we'll see !

I'll check out the stats item though - that may be the piece of code I need...

[Steve]

Thanks both; I appreciate the point about search engines, but in a high-traffic site the spiders will be a smaller contribution than the visitors, and the spiders will be touching multiple pages, so my theory is that the human input will still be visible above this noise; we'll see !

Oh? This thread has 290 views as of this moment and I'll warrant that maybe 50, if that, are human.

[Kindred]

and, also....  I have viewed this thread 5 times -- so, five of those views are just one person.
Some threads, I have opened 20 or more times...

The number of views is a buck useless stat. Replies = engagement.