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Show HN: Ghit.me – hit counter badges for GitHub
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benwilber0
on Dec 26, 2015
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fiatjaf
on Dec 26, 2015
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Does it really work? Because
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/61a470c896d89cc50b78b606b...
images on GitHub READMEs are cached by GitHub.
fiatjaf
on Dec 26, 2015
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I guess refreshing the above link repeatedly answers the question: the images are not cached, just proxied through camo.githubusercontent.com.
benwilber0
on Dec 26, 2015
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Yeah Github's proxy [1] respects Cache-Control headers, so it will just pass through.
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https://github.com/atmos/camo
tomcam
on Dec 26, 2015
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...but why? I guess hit counters were cool in 1993 but Github has much more meaningful data there on display already: forks, stars, PRs, etc. Not sure how hit counters help?
benwilber0
on Dec 26, 2015
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People like to see how many "hits" their stuff gets, especially in real time. Of course those other engagements are a lot more meaningful.
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