What does `incoming link count` in discourse database mean?

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I was hoping that incoming link count for a post in discourse database means no. of times external websites have mentioned that post in their content… But the numbers that I have are too high to believe that.
Could someone please explain what does incoming link count mean?

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I believe it is the number of incoming links from the forum itself, that is, the number of other posts that have linked to that post.

There is no rational way to determine how many times external websites have linked to a place without crawling the entire web, like Google.

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J’ai examiné le code et il semble que incoming_link_count soit similaire à la table « topic_views », sauf qu’il n’incrémente pas incoming_link_count lorsque le format de la requête est json.

Voici les lignes pertinentes dans topics_controller.rb

  def track_visit_to_topic
    topic_id =  @topic_view.topic.id
    ip = request.remote_ip
    user_id = (current_user.id if current_user)
    track_visit = should_track_visit_to_topic?

    if !request.format.json?
      hash = {
        referer: request.referer || flash[:referer],
        host: request.host,
        current_user: current_user,
        topic_id: @topic_view.topic.id,
        post_number: @topic_view.current_post_number,
        username: request['u'],
        ip_address: request.remote_ip
      }
      # defer this way so we do not capture the whole controller
      # in the closure
      TopicsController.defer_add_incoming_link(hash)
    end

    TopicsController.defer_track_visit(topic_id, ip, user_id, track_visit)
  end

J’espérais que cette colonne m’indiquerait le nombre de fois où quelqu’un est arrivé à ce sujet à partir d’un lien externe (y compris les moteurs de recherche externes) par rapport aux clics sur des liens internes.

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Pareil ! Ce serait formidable de pouvoir voir quels sujets sont les plus visités à partir de liens externes :+1::+1::+1: