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Well, I don't think !leahculver or !mmalone will love me for this, but - I think you all deserve to know anyway.

You can hack Pownce's view count. Here's a video, with an incorrect view count, to show you how.

video by cdevroe
www.viddler.com/explore/cdevroe/v...
(93142 views)
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3 months ago by Colin D. - Pro!

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  • Adam D. replied Apr 22nd
    I wonder what number the views max out at.
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    Michael M. replied Apr 22nd
    bug or feature? ;)
  • Colin D. replied Apr 22nd
    Adam: Lets find out!

    Michael: :)
  • Michael M. replied Apr 22nd
    2147483647
  • Jon R. replied Apr 22nd
    it's a style problem, the video is inside a span inside a div which is larger than the actual video embed. The span was put there to capture views when the flash player was clicked.
    The simple solution would be to decrease the size of the div.
    They could also used javascript to track the play function on the viddler player.
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    Kyle B. replied Apr 22nd
    I dont think thats a hack, but yea.
  • Michael M. replied Apr 22nd
    (good luck)
  • Michael O. replied Apr 22nd
    lol. That's interesting.
  • Adam D. replied Apr 22nd
    *Setting up OS X Automator...* ;)
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    Michael O. replied Apr 22nd
    1337 views. ;-)
  • Colin D. replied Apr 22nd
    Jon: They could. But they have other players to deal with too. But yes, it is a wrapping "problem"

    Kyle: Don't be nit-picky!

    Michael: Gee thanks.

    Michael Owens: Indeed.
  • Colin D. replied Apr 22nd
    Adam: Thats the spirit!
  • Ash L. replied Apr 22nd
    Yeah, I did that a little while ago.

    Doesn't always work, but it's a cool little trick.
  • Michael M. replied Apr 22nd
    I'm biting my tongue... I guess all I'll say is that, as a programmer, I'm disappointed that the best "automated" solution anyone has come up with is using OS X Automator...

    Not that I'm encouraging/condoning any other sort of automation here... and not that there's any point to it :P.
  • Kyle B. replied Apr 22nd
    Ive automated it with jquery but have to fix one more bug.
  • Kyle B. replied Apr 22nd
    Got it, stupid work distracted me though.
  • Colin D. replied Apr 22nd
    Michael: I too was surprised.

    Kyle: How does it work? How high can we jack up this number?
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    Colin D. replied Apr 22nd
    We're getting close to 10,000, but sadly unless Kyle comes through with his automator, I don't think we're ever going to get near Pownce's limit. :-) Thanks to all for the clicks!
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    Natalie G. replied Apr 22nd
    Wow, when I last had checked a few hours ago, this had just hit 5,000... oh my.. keep it going!
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    Kyle S. replied Apr 22nd
    Wow! 35,000 views :)
  • Colin D. replied Apr 23rd
    Kyle: (which is Viddler's Lead Social Developer (and the guy that gets me my coffee)) you must share your automator!
  • Colin D. replied Apr 23rd
    Natalie: How many did you contribute? Hmmm. ;)
  • Natalie G. replied Apr 23rd
    Colin: hehe don't ask ;-)
  • Kyle B. replied Apr 23rd
    Yea just friend me, ill send it to you.
  • Kyle B. replied Apr 23rd
    Mine doesnt involve clicking though, and can be done with any link note
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    Randy K. replied Apr 23rd
    omg...that's pretty bad. Does anybody do QA anymore?
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    John R. replied Apr 30th
    Wow, that count is rising fast! Tack on another 100 from me...
  • Colin D. replied Apr 30th
    John: Thanks!
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    Matthew K. replied Jul 6th
    I just noticed this note, very interesting. On OS X you could also use an applications like Charles and set up a repeat action any number of times to "re-click" the link since they don't limit by anything really.. kind of odd.

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