Total number of viewers -ever (feature request) about owncast HOT 5 OPEN

Hi there. I'm not sure if I totally understand the details of what you're thinking. To clarify: If viewer X connects to your stream, the counter goes to 1. If they disconnect and reconnect, it goes to 2?

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Hi @gabek, exactly! Imagine my stream is embedded into an IPTV player&channel list of a TV.

Then, the people in the house today played my channel for a while, they later changed the channel, and in the evening they returned to my channel again, and so on. These actually counts how many times the channel (stream) was watched, which is actually an important detail worth to be located in "Viewers" page.

Kindest regards.

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For most people, while I could see that being maybe an interesting number, I don't think it would be very useful to them. It would just be some magical big number that doesn't really mean anything. If a streamer sees 4,528, what does that mean? Nothing, really. It depends on how many times they streamed. And then the streamer would probably do the math to figure out the average viewers per stream in that case. And even having an average number of viewers per stream isn't that useful because you already know the number of viewers for each stream.

So unfortunately, I don't see the utility in this number. But I will leave this issue open in case others want to chime in if maybe I'm just missing something and there are use cases I'm not thinking of.

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