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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by flexie on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:49AM (#16046029)
Why would you want to be disturbed every few seconds? It's bad enough with interruptions from emails, chats, skype, calls, messages, coworkers walking in etc. This might actually have the potential to kill your remaining few productive spells.
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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by duiker101 on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:12AM (#16046109)
Why would you want to have fun at all? Fun really takes away time from all the productivity I could do.

Apart from that. Personally I keep a tab with real time because I like to look if there is a surge of users(I mostly have max 5 concurrent users) because it might mean someone mentioned the site somewhere so I like to go and maybe try to participate in the conversation.

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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by karimf on Monday January 01, 2018 @08:56AM (#16046048)
I guess when you've spent weeks developing an interesting project, it's so satisfying to see when it gains tractions, even just one visitor. Then you turn the chirps off later when things get better.
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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by michaelmcmillan on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:10AM (#16046102)
Nothing is like the dopamine rush you get when a customer checks out a product you have launced.
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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by beejiu on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:24AM (#16046141)
Maybe because you are early stage and wish to pay close attention to how people use your product. A sales agent might want to keep an eye on their hot prospect as they browse the website. There are lots of possibilities.
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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by nsgi on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:59PM (#16055563)
If you get disturbed an average of every five seconds then you have around 6 million visits per year. Usually something worth celebrating for a new site, and you don't have to keep it on indefinitely :)
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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by anonytrary on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:02AM (#16046077)
Auditory feedback can be useful in certain circumstances.
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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by nickjj on Monday January 01, 2018 @09:43AM (#16046208)
Hearing a "cha ching" sound is really gratifying if you sell a product. That's probably why cash registers make that noise.
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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by digi_owl on Monday January 01, 2018 @10:24AM (#16046353)
All manner of non-visual feedback is highly undervalued these days for some reason.
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Re:Chirpss – Hear and see people visiting or leaving your we... by anonytrary on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:39AM (#16061285)
I feel that web users have made it very taboo to use auditory feedback.
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