# Topic\_views vs Topic.views

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-views-vs-topic-views/97175>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 14, 2018, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-views-vs-topic-views/97175 "2018-09-14T08:25:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2018, 10:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-views-vs-topic-views/97175/12 "2018-09-28T10:24:02Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> have you considered contributing a PR to get it done

Absolutely, but first I wanted to have some kind of confirmation that changing this would be actually welcome.

To sum it all up, I think we could get rid of the `ip_address` column in the `topic_views` table altogether, and stop creating entries for anonymous users, right?

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