Click counter missing for some internal links

[merefield (Robert)]

Thanks for responding on the weekend!

When you get chance can you comment on the following:

• Does including a username in the link matter
• Does including a heading (mid-post # link) matter?
• Is a global rebake recommended?

wrt to counters

• is ‘rebuild HTML’ wrench option a rebake of the current post?

[zogstrip (Régis Hanol)]

@merefield

• Does including a username in the link matter
• Does including a heading (mid-post # link) matter?

They shouldn’t.

@merefield

Is a global rebake recommended?

If you want your click counters to go back to 0 and work properly sure. It won’t hurt.

@merefield

is ‘rebuild HTML’ wrench option a rebake of the current post?

Yup, “rebuild HTML” is the user-friendly term for a rebake.

[merefield (Robert)]

@zogstrip

Does rebaking fix out of date slugs?

It should.

Thanks

I’ve tried to Rebuild two different posts’ HTML using the admin action on the Wrench but the slugs remained the same, old, incorrect ones:

• No errors in logs.

from Data Explorer:

• baked_at suggested the post was updated more or less immediately reflecting the time I requested the Rebuild action.
• slugs not updated in either raw or cooked columns

[tophee (Christoph)]

@sam

Can you make a post here with specific examples on meta?

Okay, I’ll just start collecting some examples (of internal links without a click counter) as I see them (and, of course, I don’t mean the link reproduced here in the quote but the link in its original location):

@Falco

Hey guys, we all know forum signatures are a past thing, but there are still a lot of communities that really like then.

Actually, there are even some external links without click counters (although I’m not sure about those since they are my own so I can’t test them):

@tophee

ave a long table-of-contents type post in whic

and

@tophee

We upgraded to latest via a rebuild

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

I am not sure this is strictly related @david

[david (David Taylor)]

@tophee

internal links will be counted if they don’t have a username appended but not if they do

They were being counted on the server, but not displayed in the client. Should be fixed by

FIX: Ignore query parameters when displaying counter on internal links

@tophee

Actually, there are even some external links without click counters

I am sorry to say that those examples are just because nobody clicked on them I clicked them and they now have counters.

There are some other issues mentioned in this topic which were resolved in the other topic, or by @zogstrip. If there are any outstanding, let’s open new topics for them.

[merefield (Robert)]

Thanks a lot guys, appreciate the attention to this functionality!

[tophee (Christoph)]

@david

Actually, there are even some external links without click counters

I am sorry to say that those examples are just because nobody clicked on them I clicked them and they now have counters.

I think you misunderstood. It wasn’t about the link here on meta but about the links in the post that I linked to. When I referred to that post, none of the internal links had any click counter and even some of the external links didn’t have one (and neither was I able to produce one by clicking either). Today, for whatever reason, all links in that post have a links.

Not sure what this means but I thought I’d mention it.

BTW, here is another little bug: even though ypu are quoting my post and I did get a notification, it is now gone: [unfortunately, uploading my screenshot doesn’t seem to work at the moment, but believe me: it was there and now it’s gone]. Could it bd related to the new mobile menues?

[david (David Taylor)]

@tophee

It wasn’t about the link here on meta but about the links in the post that I linked to.

- hopefully we’re all good now, but if any issues persist please do start a new topic.

@tophee

even though ypu are quoting my post and I did get a notification, it is now gone

unlikely related to the menus, but we did just have a small outage on Meta - it could be that the server went down halfway through publishing your notification.