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[Emporion]

It is simple, but it's also vague. How will I know how many members have viewed a thread and a post?

Answer: I can't.

That's my point.

One would question why you wanted to know that in the first place; usually the people who are actually interested in a thread are the ones who post in it as well. Since only members can post, you can get a pretty good idea about who has viewed a thread by the posts and kudos that are in it.

I just wished I knew how many members had viewed a thread and posts. It's just a bit too vague for me because sometimes I read the numbers and wish I knew how many members had read my post.

More members appear to read posts in a thread rather than replying(except for the page reloading). I guess I sometimes wish I was one or the really popular people whom everyone who learns about them or what they say wants to reply back.

I get pangs of the same wishful thinking when I see the imbalance of replies to views on thread topic I find interesting, even mine.

We aren't going to change it; not because it would be too hard, but because it would be a strain on resources and ultimately pointless (i.e. there is really no benefit from it). To do it we'd have to track every member who has gone to the thread, check whether they have visited before, and if not, add a new row to some table in the database, and we'd have to do that for every member, for every thread. I don't want to do the math, but it's a lot of overhead for the simple act of giving you a single number.

hock:
Honestly, I just thought it was a simple fix. I had no idea how much overhead it was to make the change. Most of my web knowledge I have are from 2 half semester classes about html and css at a community college in California, where I live. The discrete math class, I am in now, is teaching me new connections between sets and the data structures I learned form one semester of C++ and part of a book on Objective-C at the same college. Just wondering, how much of this kind of knowledge do you have?