Admin Panel Top Post filtering is filtering on publish date

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Don't post for 1 week
2.Filter on [Last Week]
3.No post appears in the list

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The title is "What readers like" last week. The user doesn't care if the post 
was published 2 months ago. If it is still the one which is the most read, or 
the most commented, This is the one he will expect to see here.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.5

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by stephane...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 12:56

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That's by design :)

The box is meant to show the top among the posts your wrote in the specific 
amount of time (last week, last month, last year, forever), not how many 
"likes" the post had in that period (which we cannot track).

Maybe we can change the wording to make it more clear: any suggestions?

Original comment by simone.chiaretta on 19 Jul 2010 at 1:11

• Added labels: Admin, Priority-Low
• Removed labels: Priority-Medium

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Well, we have almost all the data to do this.

It's quite simple to implement I think (it always seems so :)).
If we would stamp  the Web view with the date at which the user access the blog 
post URL (I suppose subtext doesn't, I didnt check the DB neither the code yet) 
then we can filter on that stamp. same for aggregator view, and we already have 
the date of the comments...

That's my suggestion. I don't see much value in comparing posts published the 
last week, and most likely, old posts will be have been viewed more than new 
ones.
It just feels like a wrong stat to me.
But subtext is open source, so I'll for sure put my hands in there and try to 
do it myself soon :)

Original comment by stephane...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 1:25

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Subtext keeps a "global" counter of the visits, they are not split by day.
The stats you are suggesting is something you can easily get from google 
analytics (most viewed page of the last week/month/year).
The rational behind the current stats is: "which is the best post among the one 
I wrote last year/month/week"? As you say, comparing posts written 2 years ago, 
that might already get 2-300 page view per day from search engines alone, with 
posts written 3 days ago, which might have not been indexed yet, makes little 
sense.

CC-ing Phil to gather his thoughts as he is the one that implemented this 
feature.

Original comment by simone.chiaretta on 19 Jul 2010 at 2:31

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Thanks, I understand that it is not a mandatory feature. I use analytics 
myself. It was just a concern I had because it didn't work the way I expected 
it at first, so I was giving you a feedback that it didn't feel natural to me.
If I end up trying to do it on my side, I'd be glad to share my implementation 
with you.

This new version release is great. so much nice improvement. Keep up the great 
work!

Original comment by stephane...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 2:38

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If it is just "misinterpretation" a change of wording might be enough to make 
it easier to understand.
Any suggestions?

Original comment by simone.chiaretta on 19 Jul 2010 at 2:41

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Could be just to add a label "published:" just in front of the different time 
filter.
But that doesn't look very good I think.
I have a hard time finding something better. It could also be just me seeing 
this differently while everybody understands it as it is. What is your opinion?

Waiting for more feedback :)

Original comment by stephane...@gmail.com on 19 Jul 2010 at 9:06

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I think I'll mark as "wontfix" for now.
If someone comes out with a better descriptive text, just add a new item.
Thx

Original comment by simone.chiaretta on 26 Jul 2010 at 10:32

• Changed state: WontFix