Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011

Re:Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011 by mthoms on Sunday January 30, 2011 @06:00PM (#2159473)

Excellent work, thanks for doing this.

Out of curiosity, why would you have a checkout process to simply download an image in the first place?

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011 by jmarbach on Sunday January 30, 2011 @06:12PM (#2159502)

I'm a marketing type guy, so I'm very focused on gathering as much user data possible for anything I create. Sort of the "If you can't measure it, then it doesn't exist." philosophy. By adding a checkout process, I can gauge an approximation on the number of downloads.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011 by jacquesm on Sunday January 30, 2011 @06:45PM (#2159597)

Don't you have serverlogs/analytics for that?

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011 by jmarbach on Monday January 31, 2011 @06:37PM (#2163692)

The server logs might indicate how many times the image was loaded, however they do not reveal the number of attempted downloads.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Map 2011 by gsivil on Monday January 31, 2011 @01:09AM (#2160506)

Unfortunately this measuring method could discourage the people from downloading and thus could affect the measurable quantity.

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