Everything old is new again. I used this same technique on MySpace 15 years ago. I wonder if Github will try to filter that out the same way MySpace did back in the day.
I think I did this for emails sometime between 15 years ago and today
How to track and display profile views on GitHub
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Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#12This is interesting because this didn't used to be possible from a repository's readme, I believe, because linked images would be cached and served from GitHub's CDN. I wonder what's changed (if it indeed has)
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#13This is interesting because this didn't used to be possible from a repository's readme, I believe, because linked images would be cached and served from GitHub's CDN. I wonder what's changed (if it indeed has)
That's literally discussed in depth in the article. They use headers for cache-busting just like README badges have done forever.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#14You could also simply click on the "Insights" tab of the repository you created to host the README.md page.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#15Friendly reminder that you can disable automatic downloading of remote images on emails on your phone and other email clients. People use it to track if you've read or not the email, engagement etc.
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#16This is interesting because this didn't used to be possible from a repository's readme, I believe, because linked images would be cached and served from GitHub's CDN. I wonder what's changed (if it indeed has)
That's literally discussed in depth in the article. They use headers for cache-busting just like README badges have done forever.
Ah gotcha, sorry, totally missed that!
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#17Everything old is new again. I used this same technique on MySpace 15 years ago. I wonder if Github will try to filter that out the same way MySpace did back in the day.
> the same way MySpace did back in the day. For us that weren't around in MySpace era, how did they do that?
I can't remember much about images - but basically filtering out question-marks and equals symbols (i.e. ...thing.php?some=value) in a lot of places. I remember getting Facebook and when they first started their API it was a bit better thought out, so they loaded images on the user's behalf.
Some great reading about 'hacking' myspace at the time: https://samy.pl/myspace/
Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#18This is interesting because this didn't used to be possible from a repository's readme, I believe, because linked images would be cached and served from GitHub's CDN. I wonder what's changed (if it indeed has)
You can check it here https://github.com/dwyl/hits
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#19First I heard about a readme for your profile page. So the facebook-ification of GitHub progresses? At what point is LinkedIn going to be merged into GitHub? (Only partially /s)
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Re: How to track and display profile views on GitHub
#20This is interesting because this didn't used to be possible from a repository's readme, I believe, because linked images would be cached and served from GitHub's CDN. I wonder what's changed (if it indeed has)
You can check it here https://github.com/dwyl/hits Also https://twitter.com/holman/status/427937383376379904
Neat, thanks!