Less views from the exchange than before?

silverserpent • 1 March 2015 at 6:24 PM

Since the update with real-time views it seems like I'm getting less views from the Click Exchange than before and my creatures evolve more slowly.

One click should equal one view, right? Then why am I suddenly getting more clicks than views?

For example, one of my creatures in the Click Exchange has gotten 60 clicks in the last 9 hours, but only 35 views. Some of those views should be caused by people visiting my profile so it makes absolutely no sense to have less views than clicks during those 9 hours.

Or am I misunderstanding something here? :/

darcy_vasquez • 2 March 2015 at 5:16 PM

@silverserpent

Same here. I've been trying to immortalize 3 creatures, and they don't evolve as fast as they did before the realtime views. It's taking them more time to evolve.

silverserpent • 2 March 2015 at 5:17 PM

@darcy_vasquez
Ah, what a relief! It's not just me! xD

shelby • 2 March 2015 at 5:18 PM

@silverserpent

It's possible that people click the creature and don't wait for the page to load, and close the tab right away, therefore the creature gets the click but not a view.
Since the site has been so laggy, people might not wait for the page to load for your creature.

darcy_vasquez • 2 March 2015 at 5:19 PM

@silverserpent

Yes, look at this.

silverserpent • 2 March 2015 at 5:25 PM

@shelby

I don't see how that matters actually. The view is the first thing that should count since it _should_ load together with the click and register your IP. Something seems off since the real-time update. This slow view count wasn't an issue before that.

@darcy_vasquez

I totally see that. My reference creature is 40 views behind the clicks today, I think.

shelby • 2 March 2015 at 6:17 PM

@silverserpent

Maybe since the update you do have to wait for the creature page to load for the view to count, then?
I'm not sure.

spiritkoi • 2 March 2015 at 6:20 PM

@silverserpent Maybe the view count is slow to update?

Ian • 10 March 2015 at 2:51 PM

@silverserpent @spiritkoi @darcy_vasquez @shelby

Based on what activity we've been seeing in the Click Exchange recently, it is possible for a user to harvest click-through clicks (i.e. eggcave.com/click/###) and shove them through a proxy (artificially unique IPs) to generate more unique clicks. This type of automation could be programmed to follow through the click link, but not load the following creature profile page (for a creature view). No images necessary.

This the main logical explanation for this at the moment.