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Reminds me of a website that used a random number generator for the "<n> persons are looking at this right now". The random number would be stored in Redis for

Reminds me of a website that used a random number generator for the "<n> persons are looking at this right now". The random number would be stored in Redis for some time so it wouldn't go randomly up and down upon refresh, at which point it would be obviously fake.

julianlam 7y ago
Seems like a waste of redis' capabilities, when localStorage is much easier to implement for something like this.
- desas 7y ago
  As a user I can see what you've put in my local storage and create a pr problem.
  - eridius 7y ago
    Also if it's in localStorage then opening the same site on two devices would show very different numbers and quite obviously be fake.
HelloNurse 7y ago
Candy Crush Soda Saga does it with microtransactions. The game is a puzzle in which you need to do something in a limited number of moves and on defeat screens there are notices along the lines of "420455 people bought extra moves to beat this level".