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Re:Show HN: Fun, simple feature tours for your website or app by fratis on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:59PM (#4715243)
Folks who've used tour things like this: how do you detect if it's the first time your users are using your app? Do you make a db query every time they log in? Do you use cookies? Cookies seem unreliable and a flag in the database seems a waste of resources.

Thoughts?

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Re:Show HN: Fun, simple feature tours for your website or app by tommoor on Monday October 29, 2012 @08:41PM (#4715410)
We store a flag on the user that the tour has been seen. The user is always loaded with the page anyway so it's no extra DB calls to get this information.
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Re:Show HN: Fun, simple feature tours for your website or app by fratis on Monday October 29, 2012 @10:20PM (#4715725)
Ah. Fair enough. Thanks for the tip.
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