Looking for input: adding page views to smol pub?
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Smol Pub currently doesn't keep track of how many times a post has
been seen. I haven't added this functionality because I don't feel
it's a metric we should care about. Seing a number going up is
surely a metric that's encouraging. Sometimes, it's something that
motivates to write more. However it can also induce stress, or fear
to publish, when we know the number might be low. What I enjoy
about the small net is the slow nature. That people write for
themselves and connect because they really care. I have no idea how
many people are reading what I'm writing, but I'm happy this way
because I don't feel pressured to write at all.
But then I understand it's something some of us care about, and I
sometimes receive emails asking about it. So I would love to know
what you think: should Smol Pub offer a simple way to see how many
people viewed a post?
The way this could look like could be a simple "hit" counter
associated to each post. Anytime the backend is asked to show the
post (regardless if the request comes from gemini, web or gopher),
it increments that counter, which would would be showed in the post
list on the dashboard.
Of course that's a very naive way to include page views. Someone
could refresh the page 10 times and the counter would be 10.
