Unstable results for Increment Counter (Up)

[hype-ad]

Hi there! Thank you for the great service, we love this a lot. Please find the minor issue about the unstable results to increment a counter

Case#1

mgaston@laptop:~/project/Trends$ curl https://api.counterapi.dev/v2/hypead-webportal/youtube-shorts   -H "Authorization: Bearer ***"
{"code":"200","data":{"created_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","description":"","down_count":0,"id":***,"name":"youtube shorts","slug":"youtube-shorts","team_id":*,"up_count":40,"updated_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","user_id":***,"workspace_id":***,"workspace_slug":"hypead-webportal"}}

mgaston@laptop:~/project/Trends$ curl https://api.counterapi.dev/v2/hypead-webportal/youtube-shorts/up   -H "Authorization: Bearer ***"
{"code":"200","data":{"created_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","description":"","down_count":0,"id":*,"name":"youtube shorts","slug":"youtube-shorts","team_id":***,"up_count":40,"updated_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","user_id":***,"workspace_id":***,"workspace_slug":"hypead-webportal"},"message":"Counter incremented successfully"}

mgaston@laptop:~/project/Trends$ curl https://api.counterapi.dev/v2/hypead-webportal/youtube-shorts   -H "Authorization: Bearer ***"
{"code":"200","data":{"created_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","description":"","down_count":0,"id":***,"name":"youtube shorts","slug":"youtube-shorts","team_id":***,"up_count":40,"updated_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","user_id":***,"workspace_id":***,"workspace_slug":"hypead-webportal"}}

mgaston@laptop:~/project/Trends$ curl https://api.counterapi.dev/v2/hypead-webportal/youtube-shorts   -H "Authorization: Bearer ***"
{"code":"200","data":{"created_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","description":"","down_count":0,"id":***,"name":"youtube shorts","slug":"youtube-shorts","team_id":***,"up_count":40,"updated_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","user_id":***,"workspace_id":***,"workspace_slug":"hypead-webportal"}}

mgaston@laptop:~/project/Trends$ curl https://api.counterapi.dev/v2/hypead-webportal/youtube-shorts   -H "Authorization: Bearer ***"
{"code":"200","data":{"created_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","description":"","down_count":0,"id":***,"name":"youtube shorts","slug":"youtube-shorts","team_id":***,"up_count":40,"updated_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","user_id":***,"workspace_id":***,"workspace_slug":"hypead-webportal"}}

mgaston@laptop:~/project/Trends$ curl https://api.counterapi.dev/v2/hypead-webportal/youtube-shorts   -H "Authorization: Bearer ***"
{"code":"200","data":{"created_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","description":"","down_count":0,"id":***,"name":"youtube shorts","slug":"youtube-shorts","team_id":***,"up_count":40,"updated_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","user_id":***,"workspace_id":***,"workspace_slug":"hypead-webportal"}}

mgaston@laptop:~/project/Trends$ curl https://api.counterapi.dev/v2/hypead-webportal/youtube-shorts   -H "Authorization: Bearer ***"
{"code":"200","data":{"created_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","description":"","down_count":0,"id":***,"name":"youtube shorts","slug":"youtube-shorts","team_id":***,"up_count":40,"updated_at":"2026-02-26T23:39:21Z","user_id":***,"workspace_id":***,"workspace_slug":"hypead-webportal"}}

[omegion]

Hi @hype-ad,

There is a buffer with a delay once you go up or down a counter. We use Redis to store these count events and write to the database periodically. In short, when you count up, the counter will eventually be up in 30 seconds.

[hype-ad]

@omegion thanks for the response, now it make sense