Are there any plans to add user-visible analytics features to LW, like on the EA forum? Screenshot from an EA forum draft for reference:
I’m often pretty curious about whether the reception to a post is lukewarm, or if most people just didn’t see it before it dropped off the front page.
Analytics wouldn’t tell me everything, but it would allow me to distinguish between the case that people are clicking and then not reading / voting vs. not clicking through at all.
On the EA forum, analytics are only viewable by the post author. I’m most interested in analytics for my own posts (e.g. my recent post, which received just a single vote), but I think having the data be public, or at least have it be configurable that way, is another possibility. Maybe this could take the form of a “view counter”, like Twitter recently introduced, with an option for the post author to control whether it shows up or not.
Are there any plans to add user-visible analytics features to LW, like on the EA forum? Screenshot from an EA forum draft for reference:
I’m often pretty curious about whether the reception to a post is lukewarm, or if most people just didn’t see it before it dropped off the front page.
Analytics wouldn’t tell me everything, but it would allow me to distinguish between the case that people are clicking and then not reading / voting vs. not clicking through at all.
On the EA forum, analytics are only viewable by the post author. I’m most interested in analytics for my own posts (e.g. my recent post, which received just a single vote), but I think having the data be public, or at least have it be configurable that way, is another possibility. Maybe this could take the form of a “view counter”, like Twitter recently introduced, with an option for the post author to control whether it shows up or not.