Show HN: Ghit.me – hit counter badges for GitHub

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Does it really work? Because https://camo.githubusercontent.com/61a470c896d89cc50b78b606b... images on GitHub READMEs are cached by GitHub.

I guess refreshing the above link repeatedly answers the question: the images are not cached, just proxied through camo.githubusercontent.com.

Yeah Github's proxy [1] respects Cache-Control headers, so it will just pass through.

[1]https://github.com/atmos/camo

...but why? I guess hit counters were cool in 1993 but Github has much more meaningful data there on display already: forks, stars, PRs, etc. Not sure how hit counters help?

People like to see how many "hits" their stuff gets, especially in real time. Of course those other engagements are a lot more meaningful.

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