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Streamlined installation of counters

Jul 20, 2007 22:39

Title
Streamlined installation of counters

Short, concise description of the idea
It's preposterous that non-code users who have specifically picked S2 have to figure out code in order to do something as simple as add a counter.

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Comments 12

kateshort July 24 2007, 20:09:36 UTC

Um, there are counters that don't require CSS. Can't you just stick a counter in a future-dated entry? Or use a layout that supports counter code?

coach_wade July 25 2007, 04:54:27 UTC

I tried the layout that supports counter code: it offers a one line entry box for counter code. All of the counters I looked at were eight to twelve lines in length.

Future-dated entries look unprofessional. I don't care for them.

I guess I'm just a little confused why LJ doesn't offer a built in counter when MySpace does.

ex_uniquewo July 25 2007, 13:21:08 UTC

I tried the layout that supports counter code: it offers a one line entry box for counter code. All of the counters I looked at were eight to twelve lines in length.

Have you tried Smooth Sailing? It has free text boxes that allow you to enter HTML and I'm pretty sure it's long enough for a counter, considering I could add lines and lines of links.

About your suggestion: I don't want built-in counters. No, thanks. As imc said, this isn't what LJ is about. Now improve the way counters can be implemented, why not?

imc July 25 2007, 11:34:53 UTC

I don't find that preposterous at all; it's simply not what LiveJournal is about. (I very rarely visit the actual journal page of anyone anyway.)

I know nothing about counters, but surely all you need is an
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mokie July 25 2007, 20:14:38 UTC

You're right, you'd do better on MySpace.

angryd July 26 2007, 02:30:12 UTC

Mokie, your pointless contribution to the discussion almost convinced me.

~D.

mokie July 26 2007, 08:28:48 UTC

Well, it is my most convincing icon ( ... )

aveleh July 26 2007, 01:53:05 UTC

I think changing the text input areas to a textarea could be helpful. But I do not want built-in counters, and I think any CSS problems you're experiencing has more to do with the counter you've chosen than LiveJournal and S2.

angryd July 26 2007, 02:40:32 UTC

I don't get what the problem is with a built in counter. No one says you HAVE to turn it on. If you don't want it, leave it off. Those of us that would like to have it could turn it on with a couple of mouse clicks. BOOM! Everyone's happy. And by the way, LJ is about whatever the author of the blog wants it to be about ( ... )

opal1159 July 26 2007, 20:48:16 UTC

I use a counter that is only an image. I guess it depends on the service and what kind of data they're collecting. Even if the code were several lines long, you could probably just delete the line breaks, making it all one line. (Whether or not the counter code box has a character limit is different, but I haven't looked to see what it is.)

imc August 7 2007, 18:11:50 UTC

Counters, BTW, are not just IMG tags.

The ones at http://www.easytrafficcounter.com/ do seem to be (second site I found when doing a random search for counter sites).

They generally have a couple of lines of code for the browser to send a brief cookie to the counter's tally site.

And that code is JavaScript, which isn't allowed on LiveJournal.