Statistics for Literary Works, and friendlier urls

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Big new addition to literary works! You can now see not only how many people have viewed a literary work, but also when they did so. You can also view breakdowns for country, age, and gender.

The data goes back to August 22, 2014, so any work posted after that date will have a complete dataset available. Also, the author and anonymous users are automatically excluded from the dataset for a work. That way, the data properly reflects just what demographics are reading your work.

In addition, literary work urls have been changed from work.php?id=XXXX to /work/author/title-id. Not really a major change, but it makes the url easier to read.

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Forgot to add how to view the stats! It's kind of hard to miss since it's right above the likes button:
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That is a lot of information for one work.

I love it.
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Oops, I forgot to say how you can view the statistics!

To view stats, just look for the chart button in the upper right hand corner:
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Sounds awesome!
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Although, Nate, the links don't automatically turn into the work's/topic's title like they used to, when you would just post the url without renaming it. But still, really cool!
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This is so amazing and fun. I now check like every work I click on. xD Looking at statistics is funnn. I love how you're constantly updating the site and making it better. :3
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It could be invaluable to know what age demographic is most interested in your novel.
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This is awesome. I'm now constantly going over to my works and checking to see how many views there are. :P Thanks Nate! <3
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Yay url tidying! Could you leave the ability to look up a work by its ID alone, though? As in, preserve the original URL slug scheme while leaving this the default?

Edit: Never mind, you have done this. Probably should have checked that. :P Woot woot.
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