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Hey all.
Last week @marckohlbrugge launched https://highscore.money/ which went down really well 🔥
Following that, he sent out a tweet, asking if anyone knew of a good real time user counter to add to his site:
https://twitter.com/marckohlbrug...
_No-one did, so we made one._
Real Time Users is just that. We made it this weekend. I wrote a quick post introducing it, so feel free to look at that for more details.
https://blog.wearecontrast.com/m...
Feel free to ask any questions, we'll be about all day.
Kudos to @mijustin for inspiring this too. You can read more about that in the post above ☝️
Also, check out the leaderboard to see stats on current real time, highest real time, highest all time from all sites implementing RTU (pretty much just us for now though 😛)
Cool product. But what does real time users mean? People who has opened the site in browser or the ones who are actively using the site?
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Maker
@sajeev Hey Sajeev. So it's the unique number of people active on the site in the past 5 minutes.
This means that if you go to a site with the counter on, it'll log you and add 1 to the number. If you browse around, or refresh, it stays at 1. After 5 minutes of inactivity, we deem you inactive, and remove you from the count. It's the same premise as Google Analytics Real Time stats, as far as I'm aware.
@fredrivett awesome stuff! Just added to https://snapwidget.com. Hope you don't mind we modified it slightly, but still has a link to you guys in the text.
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@hermanschutte Ooh that's a really cool implementation Herman. Very nice indeed. Gives me more thoughts about how we could make this even better. Thanks for using it!
Out of interest, does linking to our site bother you? Would you prefer not to link? Would you pay not to? #intrigued
@fredrivett linking to your site doesn't bother me, but I think having a paid option of removing the link would be useful. Along with some other options like not showing when count is below X, and being able to set a message template as we have done. So that message can be hidden when count is below X.
Stopping people from removing the link could be tricky, but you could perhaps check the styles applied with js to make sure it's being shown.
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@hermanschutte Great suggestions, thanks Herman. Super insightful.
That's the second time having an option when it goes below X threshold has come up. I totally understand that. Agree on more options around templating.
Right now this is just a small side project so we're not too fussed about people messing with the JS, but we'll gauge whether we think there's something more we could develop this into and go from there.
Any other thoughts at all be sure to let me know! 🙌
This is honestly great. This can create a feeling that something is going on on mostly static sites. Which should naturally increase the user interaction.
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@talkb1nary Hey thanks Roman! It's definitely an interesting experiment. As I wrote in the blog post mentioned above, it can feel a bit vulnerable adding it to your site, like any element of transparency I guess. I'd love to see a site like @buffer adopt this as part of their transparency push. Either way, it was fun to make, and interesting to see the reception.
Sweet. One idea would be to only show it when the count goes above a certain number (for people who want the social proof, but can't handle the shame of a low count).
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@ramykhuffash Yep, good shout Ramy! I think there's definitely different ways this could go. Unsure if we'll develop it out more, depends on the demand really, but I agree the shame of a low count is a bit awkward.
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I love the website, and the app is clearly epic. One piece of advice I would have is that you say Styled and Plain, but I cant obviously see what these would look like. Would be helpful if I could.
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@b4dp4ck Good point Jai, thanks for the comment. The plain one is basically with no styles applied at all, just the elements, with styled being shown on the right of that section. We can definitely make this clearer though. Appreciate the feedback! 🙌
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