Thread VIEWS not being displayed. Is this a glitch?

I noticed that the threads on my profile page are not displaying the number of views. The VIEW section is always at '0', even when there are replies on the thread. (So I know it can't possibly be '0'.)

Is it a glitch? Is there anything I can do to correct this, or is it an ATS issue? I haven't had any problems until just recently.

Anyone else experiencing this or know what I can do about it?

-Mea

[edit on 22-6-2007 by Veritas Lux Mea]

The view tally was removed for server performance reasons. The text "View: 0" has not yet been removed.

What Happened to the Views Column?

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord

In reality, the "views" tracking is indeed an item that is a "luxury" and was beginning to introduce some problems.

As most people who work with high-volume technology are aware, simple database writes can often take up to four times the processor cycles as read queries, even read queries that touch on more data than a simple one-column update write... such as incrementing the view counter for a thread.

I ran a test by removing the view increment for guests, and db server load immediately decreased... so now it's implemented across all sites and we're no longer tracking views. You may notice other very large boards have adopted a similar approach.

The issue of incrementing a view-tally on every page load is not an issue on small-traffic and/or small-size sites. But as our threads table continues to grow in size with more than 262,000 topics, it has become an increasingly processor-heavy operation to open the large table, read the current views, write the views+1, then close the large table each time a thread is viewed. Now consider that our threads are getting close to 200,000 views a day, and you start to see our problem.

So, now that we're not incrementing a view-counter, views are no longer shown.

So all the threads you made after the switch will just shown 0 views.

[edit on 22/6/2007 by enjoies05]

Oh, understood now. Thanks to both of you for sheding light on this for me!

-Mea