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I agree that there's a problem with the current utility of the inbounds listed on related-to pages. However, I disagree that a viewcount could replace inbound counts. I've always thought the point of showing inbounds was to illustrate how much traffic a page generates for the wiki. A viewcount wouldn't do that, or at least not if it includes intra-site traffic.
For some reason, we can only see total inbounds in the history. There was a purge of the history in 2012 IIRC, so we can only see inbounds "since 2012." This number is helpful, but again there are concerns about its utility — this being 2020 and almost a decade later. It might be more useful to include inbounds "in the current year to date" in order to show active inbounds. Or scrap the 2012 information in favor of "in the last five years" as well as "in the current YTD."
I recall at least one TRS thread concerning a page from 2008 and most of its traffic was before 2012 so it seemed to have only a few inbounds despite its popularity in the anime fandom. So it isn't like showing the complete history of inbounds is sustainable anyways.
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Well, we could do both then. Calculate both Inbounds and overall viewcount.
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I saw your inbounds Bugs post
, and yeah, this is probably the natural conclusion to an issue like that.
I'd always imagined it as just a number on the related page, but if the top 50 list is easier to code and use, fine by me.
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I've realized that inbounds, on the whole...aren't actually all that useful to us. They tell us what pages are linked to outside of TVT, but that's it; not what pages are the most popular to read, not how often people actually look at a page, not how often wicks get clicked on, etc. I think if we started counting a pages' actual viewcount, it'll be a lot more helpful and paint a much better picture of what pages are and aren't that popular.
Edit: Or, we can count both Inbounds and total Viewcount.
Edited by WarJay77