FAO Ken, is this a record?

[Dipdodah]

I have noticed the infamous Brexit "in or out" thread as now reached a quarter of a million views.  Considering I locked the thread exactly two years ago, over 50% of views have happened since.  Surely these views are not from regular Patter users. Does the counter work properly? Or are people googling Boston Brexit and being directed to this site? Either way this must be a record.  I am not looking to restart the thread, it's just an observation.

[Ken Fox]

It's certainly a record number of views for Pilgrims' Patter by a long way. If you click on the Views link at the top of the column of posts on the board page then the posts are sorted lowest to highest by Views, click again and you get highest to lowest. Here's a screenshot of it showing the top ten posts on Patter by Views currently:

[Ed Kandii]

No wonder the viewing figures are so high;  the controversy continues 

 "According to a new poll, 46 percent out of those asked would vote to stay out of the EU if a referendum were held. Just 38 would vote to apply to rejoin the EU despite the UK only recently completing Brexit. In the poll conducted by Kantar conducted between March 25-29, support to stay out rose by four percent."

It would be over a million by now if you hadn't locked it down Dipodah 

[Dipdodah]

I agree ED.  When I started the thread, I didn't realise the controversy it would cause.  I locked the thread because I didn't want it getting out of hand like some other forums.  This is a Boston United forum and I wanted to protect it.  My views on the subject have not changed, if anything the bullying tactics of the EU as only  made them stronger. Let's look forward to a new season and being able to attend in our Brand new stadium.  Stay safe.

[Ed Kandii]

Yes, a wise move Dipodah.
We are all much safer with the UK's vaccination program than with the EU's version, that's for sure 

[Dipdodah]

Now over 300,000.  Topic still of interest to some.

[Dipdodah]

Now over half a million views. Very surprising, considering it's a locked thread and off topic.

[Pete Brooksbank]

Happy to be corrected by Ken, but I'm not sure all those visits will be from actual people. In my experience, forum software can't differentiate between a human visitor and a web crawler (these are automated 'visitors' used to index sites for search engines and sites like the Internet Archive) which you will find in the logs all the time.

[Dipdodah]

Could explain it Pete. I did notice over a thousand views a day in the run up to the election.

[TheThirdTwin]

It's certainly a record number of views for Pilgrims' Patter by a long way. If you click on the Views link at the top of the column of posts on the board page then the posts are sorted lowest to highest by Views, click again and you get highest to lowest. Here's a screenshot of it showing the top ten posts on Patter by Views currently:

I hate to be a killjoy but the “where are they now thread” has over 370,000 views, hence looks like the most viewed on Patter , not the “Brexit” thread

[Ken Fox]

It's certainly a record number of views for Pilgrims' Patter by a long way. If you click on the Views link at the top of the column of posts on the board page then the posts are sorted lowest to highest by Views, click again and you get highest to lowest. Here's a screenshot of it showing the top ten posts on Patter by Views currently:

I hate to be a killjoy but the “where are they now thread” has over 370,000 views, hence looks like the most viewed on Patter , not the “Brexit” thread

That was where it was last year. It's now 500,848 views for "O/T In or Out"

[TheThirdTwin]

It's certainly a record number of views for Pilgrims' Patter by a long way. If you click on the Views link at the top of the column of posts on the board page then the posts are sorted lowest to highest by Views, click again and you get highest to lowest. Here's a screenshot of it showing the top ten posts on Patter by Views currently:

My bad! 🥴
I hate to be a killjoy but the “where are they now thread” has over 370,000 views, hence looks like the most viewed on Patter , not the “Brexit” thread

That was where it was last year. It's now 500,848 views for "O/T In or Out"

[Dipdodah]

It's certainly a record number of views for Pilgrims' Patter by a long way. If you click on the Views link at the top of the column of posts on the board page then the posts are sorted lowest to highest by Views, click again and you get highest to lowest. Here's a screenshot of it showing the top ten posts on Patter by Views currently:

I hate to be a killjoy but the “where are they now thread” has over 370,000 views, hence looks like the most viewed on Patter , not the “Brexit” thread

Your thread has had over 130,000 views in the last month.  That has got to be record. Pete must be right, with the Brexit thread locked and the unlikely hood of that many people visiting this excellent site, ghosting must be the answer.