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comment by John_Maxwell (John_Maxwell_IV) · 2020-08-08T06:22:04.547Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

How hard would it be to add a feature that lets me check & see how many reads a post of mine has?

Ideally "read" would be somewhat meaningful -- a bot scraping the LW archives shouldn't count, someone opening the post in a tab and closing the tab before reading shouldn't count, but if you read halfway through and abandon the post in disgust, that should count.  If the same user opens the post on two occasions that should count as at most one read.

Medium.com has a nice analytics dashboard.

(I'm asking this because I think # reads might motivate me better than # upvotes.  Based on Medium.com stats, it seems like my posts there have about 100x as many viewers as upvoters (small sample size).)

comment by Gyrodiot · 2020-08-08T08:22:37.176Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Meta: the August Open & Welcome Thread already exists here [LW · GW].

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comment by John_Maxwell (John_Maxwell_IV) · 2020-08-08T08:25:57.404Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Oh thanks, I missed it somehow.