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16comments
#1,739of 2,533 in 2021
Top 69%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.
Execution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool, nostalgic hit counter idea
From 1 comment
The 1990s called and wants it’s hit counter back! Seriously though: Cool project :-).
quickthrower2 on HN
Objections
Counts hits, not unique visitors; no IP or cookie filtering
From 1 comment
Shouldn't it have an IP/local cookie based filter after one time? An alternative with the same flaw,…
villgax on HN
Easy to spam and reset with repeated requests; no rate limit
From 2 comments
An counter not counting unique visitors or has an rate-limit is the easiest target for anyone knowing how to run an `wrk` command. There is a reason, why such things aren't this…
oltdaniel on HNYou have some weird threading/locking bugs. Its possible to reset the counter by spamming refresh a few times.
fusspawn on HN
Threading/locking bugs
From 1 comment
You have some weird threading/locking bugs. Its possible to reset the counter by spamming refresh a few times.
fusspawn on HN
Requests
Add unique visitor or IP/cookie-based filtering
From 1 comment
Shouldn't it have an IP/local cookie based filter after one time? An alternative with the same flaw,…
villgax on HN
Questions
Is it serverless?
From 1 comment
Does this count as serverless? I don't see the usual request response event loop.
ampdepolymerase on HN
Alternatives named
komarev GitHub profile counter
From 1 comment
Shouldn't it have an IP/local cookie based filter after one time? An alternative with the same flaw,…
villgax on HN
AWStats for server log statistics
From 1 comment
this is not a visitor tracker, just a hit counter (page view). I did start writing a parser for the server logs to have a more robust statistics for my website, but there are…
atum47 on HN