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Re:Show HN: Real Time Users – Add a real-time user counter t... by the_watcher on Thursday June 09, 2016 @04:16PM (#11872033)
Are these users or visitors? I'm not sure how this implementation would be able to distinguish between a user and a visitor of our site.
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Re:Show HN: Real Time Users – Add a real-time user counter t... by fredrivett on Thursday June 09, 2016 @06:14PM (#11872778)
It's currently unique visitors. So, if you refresh the page, it doesn't increment the counter, as it knows you've already been logged. So it's visitors, rather than visits.
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