Comment by tolerance
10 months ago
The active readers counter is a trip. I’ve read and viewed graphs depicting how much traffic HN can bring to a web page, but to see it in real time is something else.
10 months ago
The active readers counter is a trip. I’ve read and viewed graphs depicting how much traffic HN can bring to a web page, but to see it in real time is something else.
Author here: It's powered by Instant, the company I helped found.
The counter is pretty easy to set up.
Here's how it works on the blog:
1. You set up a schema:
https://github.com/stopachka/stopaio/blob/main/src/instant.s...
2. And then use `presence` to write an ActiveCounter:
https://github.com/stopachka/stopaio/blob/main/src/app/Activ...
Your product placement link to instantdb totally worked btw (as in the one in your allowed websites not this one here)
Heck yeah : ).
TBH, it's kind of hard to square "I locked down my phone to have less distractions in my life" with "I put a counter on my page that changes 10 times a second while you're trying to read"
I didn't even notice that there was a counter before I opened the HN comments.
Fair point! I guess I count that as a "positive" distraction. It isn't every day that the active number there is so 'active'.
As you read the post it should disappear with the scroll.
My charitable suspicion is that this blog post is all some sort of esoteric way for you to show off your nifty technology. If it wasn’t for your robust catalog of previous writing I’d be more confident in this.
But whatever the case is, you hit on something right here!
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