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57 Day 714, 15:01 Ireland
<img src="http://somokon.com/erep/hitcounter.png">

***UPDATED, be sure to use the new code***

Have you ever wanted to know how many reads your article is getting?

Unsatisfied with votes as a measure of how popular an article is?

Miss the feature from beta?



Well now you can have a hit counter (like the one at the top of this article) right inside any article you like. Simply paste the CODE into your article

Thats all there is to it. Enjoy (and vote if you want )

P.S. as this is a first release, I expect there might be problems. Please contact me if you come across any, thanks.

 
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Mr aNiallator
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Mr aNiallator Day 714, 15:02

Welldone michael

 
Panther
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Panther Day 714, 15:03

Very nice!

 
Padraig_Pearse
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Padraig_Pearse Day 714, 15:09

Fair play Collins , ur the man o/

 
B-Dayan
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B-Dayan Day 714, 15:11

Nice

 
Feherlofia Koppany
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Feherlofia Koppany Day 714, 15:12

\o/

 
CHRIS MAIER
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CHRIS MAIER Day 714, 15:26

THE REASON PEACE FAILS!
<a href="http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/why-peace-fails-1016103/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/why-[..]/1/20</a>

 
Ralph Percy
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Ralph Percy Day 714, 15:28

Very interesting, will use it immediatly when I get my first newspaper. Strange that this isnt integrated?

Anyway, subscribed!

 
Emerick
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Emerick Day 714, 15:30

&gt;Have you ever wanted to know how many reads your article is getting?

Yes

&gt;Unsatisfied with votes as a measure of how popular an article is?

Yes.

&gt;Miss the feature from beta?

YES

&gt;Well now you can have a hit counter

\o/YES\o/

 
Jewitt
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Jewitt Day 714, 15:32

What Emerick said.

Maybe you could make it the size of the buttons on eRep when it is viewed in articles, too? Just my nitpicking for uniformity. Awesome work.

 
Tall_niki
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Tall_niki Day 714, 15:33

Fantastic job
Voted

 
Dishmcds
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Dishmcds Day 714, 15:35

Do you have one that does independent page views? This one looks like it counts someone who just refreshes the page a lot (the problem with the one in Beta).

 
Michael Collins
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Michael Collins Day 714, 15:36

There is some degree of protection against view spamming (just refreshing the page won't work)

There isn't any foolproof way though, and anyone clever enough will be able to figure out how to do it

 
bythemark
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bythemark Day 714, 15:44

I keep on getting a fatal error.

Excuse me I am an idiot at html. :p

 
Tyler F Durden
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Tyler F Durden Day 714, 15:45

Wish I had this tool a coupla days ago.

Just installed the view counter on all of my newspapers!

Hats off..

 
bythemark
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bythemark Day 714, 15:47

OK I got it working.

I think it may be a problem with having other images in the article?

Also, this is not retroactive, correct?

 
ExoM7
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ExoM7 Day 714, 15:49

Me like. I might use!

 
Grainne Ni Mhaille
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Grainne Ni Mhaille Day 714, 16:05

Well, I'm just happy to see you have recovered your Muse, Field Marshall.
After such a period of drought.
Mmmmmmm.
o7
♥♥♥

 
Mr Woldy
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Mr Woldy Day 714, 16:31

thats p damn cool.

 
vSkyzv
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vSkyzv Day 714, 16:33

Good job

 
Nosyt
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Nosyt Day 714, 16:34

~hyuu~

 
Jmama83
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Jmama83 Day 714, 16:46

Wow. Great tool. Voted and sub'd.

 
Scorpius
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Scorpius Day 714, 16:54

awesome. EDEN will be using this for sure

 
treize kushrenada
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treize kushrenada Day 714, 17:43

That is cool!

Voted

 
MasterMind33
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MasterMind33 Day 714, 17:48

Awesome!!!

Fact: It doesn't need to be foolproof. It's useful to know how many people saw your article and get a picture of how many of them liked it through the votes. Nobody would need to cheat on the views of their article, as it's not important for the game.

Question: It counts per referrer page and stores on your server, right?

Idea: Change the code to be a link to this article. The arrow on the picture makes people want to click it anyway, so this would help them know how to use it themselves
For others, that would be:
{img src=&quot;http://erep.site11.com/hitcounter.png&quot; /}
Note: change { and } to &lt; and &gt;

Thanks a lot again! v+s

 
Michael Collins
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Michael Collins Day 714, 17:59

Yes it determines the correct article count by referrer. And I have taken your suggestion

 
RomanEmpire
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RomanEmpire Day 714, 18:02

Good job, voted

 
patton
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patton Day 714, 18:22

Yes !

 
Robert Loggia
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Robert Loggia Day 714, 18:22

YESSSSSSS

 
Zabigyerek
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Zabigyerek Day 714, 22:22

You're great! Thanks!

 
avonlive
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avonlive Day 714, 23:19

nice

 
gyika
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gyika Day 714, 23:46

I see no numbers before the text "views". Some problem with my browser, or anything else?

 
Q5 Houses sales
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Q5 Houses sales Day 715, 02:55

it doesnt work!
i havent pic

 
John Gormley
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John Gormley Day 715, 03:10

Cool.

 
khasim
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khasim Day 715, 04:21

Niceeee

 
ian arbuckle
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ian arbuckle Day 715, 06:10

Awesome Collins o/

 
Will Carey
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Will Carey Day 715, 07:59

Getting an error page! error.000webhost.com

 
martinsV
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martinsV Day 715, 13:51

Hope the server be really better...

 
timothybeasley
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timothybeasley Day 715, 19:22

Looks to me like it only counts direct clicks to that article made by clicking on the "view" icon, and not visits to your newspaper in general. How do you have 326 votes for this article and only 54 views?

Great idea in concept. Maybe I'm just stupid here, but it doesn't look accurate to me, yet.

 
Michael A. Sinclair
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Michael A. Sinclair Day 715, 19:22

I'm curious why most of the places I'm seeing this in have more votes than views. O_o

 
MrPib
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MrPib Day 715, 19:27

SwEeET

 
chebbba
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chebbba Day 715, 21:15

Michael Collins, you're awesome

 
Nick Wernette
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Nick Wernette Day 715, 23:37

how could this article be at 286 views, but 381 votes. How can more people have voted about this article than people who have viewed the article. THIS is awesome thought...

 
Al Mehdi
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Al Mehdi Day 716, 00:00

How is it possible that it have 316 views and 385 votes? Those numbers should be the other way around....

 
Michael Collins
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Michael Collins Day 716, 00:02

The counts had to be reset when I updated it

 
Mv13
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Mv13 Day 716, 02:46

Collins is my wife

 
Musketeer
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Musketeer Day 716, 08:28

Thank you

V + S + KISS!

   
Sanderson
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Sanderson Day 716, 15:37

woooaah... Great !

 
John A Kelly
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John A Kelly Day 719, 01:02

Hey... nice hack! I like how you did that.

 
Alecian
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Alecian Day 719, 08:47

Doesn't work Nothing pops up in the article

 
Sim Maatriks
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Sim Maatriks Day 721, 05:48

Thank you, will use it and subscribed !

 
Killing Time
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Killing Time Day 722, 07:14

Thanks Collins, this is really awesome

 
Maniu
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Maniu Day 726, 14:27

Thank you! I mean it

 
eR UTOPIA
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eR UTOPIA Day 728, 11:43

Having stats about actual 'addresses' is GREAT/interesting, but I feel that ACCURATE &quot;hits/views counting&quot; is (at this time)IMPOSSIBLE. Still, I, STRONGLY, support efforts to attempt it.

GREAT article. I almost wish I could vote/subscribe!

 
Von Cruise
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Von Cruise Day 746, 01:20

s

 
hidden mafia
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hidden mafia Day 775, 09:02

so usefull

 
Liquid Radium
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Liquid Radium Day 836, 12:40

well done