Improve viewer counter

More precise, avoid weird decrease, reuse an id to federate viewers

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/server/lib/views/shared/video-views.ts b/server/lib/views/shared/video-views.ts
index 19250f993..275f7a014 100644
--- a/server/lib/views/shared/video-views.ts
+++ b/server/lib/views/shared/video-views.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import { logger, loggerTagsFactory } from '@server/helpers/logger'
+import { sendView } from '@server/lib/activitypub/send/send-view'
+import { getServerActor } from '@server/models/application/application'
 import { MVideo } from '@server/types/models'
+import { buildUUID } from '@shared/extra-utils'
 import { Redis } from '../../redis'
 
 const lTags = loggerTagsFactory('views')
@@ -24,6 +27,8 @@ export class VideoViews {
 
     await this.addView(video)
 
+    await sendView({ byActor: await getServerActor(), video, type: 'view', viewerIdentifier: buildUUID() })
+
     return true
   }
 
@@ -39,6 +44,8 @@ export class VideoViews {
     return true
   }
 
+  // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
   private async addView (video: MVideo) {
     const promises: Promise<any>[] = []