# Do user-specific columns count as updates? **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/do-user-specific-columns-count-as-updates/58758 **Category:** Ask for Help **Created:** [March 4, 2023, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/do-user-specific-columns-count-as-updates/58758 "2023-03-04T12:29:24Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![Joe\_Gabriele](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/joe_gabriele/32/57595_2.png) [@Joe\_Gabriele](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Joe_Gabriele) #### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/do-user-specific-columns-count-as-updates/58758/2 "2023-03-04T13:33:41Z")
Signed in users using USC will count towards your updates. Visitors / non signed in users do not. > [@Session Variable Column](https://community.glideapps.com/t/session-variable-column/40260): > > I’ve always thought that it’s really useful how user specific columns only store values locally and for the duration of your session while you are not signed in. This allows for those column values to “reset” after you close the app, and the data does not need to be sent and synchronized with glide servers. However, once you sign in, then those values are sent to, and stored, on Glide’s servers. I think a new Session column type could be really useful. It would work just like user specific c… Vote here to add a temporary USC type of column that wouldnt count toward updates --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/do-user-specific-columns-count-as-updates/58758)._