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Arina Artemis, Codecrafter

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jkap
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jkap
@jkap

i’ve actually seen view counts on tweets and honestly it is such an unimaginably bad idea. it is going to create a whole new suite of Problems for people who have a dependence on numbers for validation/self-worth/etc. it’s actively harmful imo.

like the reason we don’t have Numbers is because we consider them to be harmful and not how you build a healthy community. when we (eventually) roll out Metrics for people who depend on them to run their business (creators who derive their income from Posting), they will be opt-in and deliberately convoluted to access; no front-and-center numbers.

although i guess for twitter’s goals (maximize engagement), adding cognitohazardous numbers is a good idea. it’s almost certainly gonna work for the people it doesn’t disgust enough for this to be their Last Straw. bad website.

jkap
@jkap

ALSO for twitter users: this is the CSS you want to drop into a userstyle to hide the view count:

div:has(> a[href*="analytics"]) {
    display: none !important;
}
formatted using the excellent codehost by @wavebeem

EDIT: i forgot that :has() doesn't have support in firefox. firefox users.... y'all are own your own

DOUBLE EDIT: from @thricedotted in the comments:

firefox users aren't totally SOL — in 103+, :has() can be enabled by going to about:config and setting layout.css.has-selector.enabled to true

so go do that

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deltahead
@deltahead

for what it's worth, on here every like, share, and comment feels special, at least to me! because the community is smaller and numbers aren't the priority, it really does make every interaction feel genuine, and it makes me happy, instead of making me feel anxious like most other platforms do.

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jkap
@jkap

part of why we have Comments as well is we want to have discussion not be Front and Center on everyone's feeds (we think that's also bad for its own reasons) and it also definitely helps with interactions feeling genuine imo. there's a couple product design things that i kind of think we nailed and comments (conceptually, there's some improvements we can make for UX and etc) are one of them

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pinkie
@pinkie

as one of the aforementioned people for whom this was the last straw, i really appreciate the lack of Numbers too! especially, and this is a subtle thing, the way that stacked notifications just display 'several people' instead of giving you an exact number front and centre; those sorts of things really do go a long way towards making this a site that i feel comfortable and happy talking to others on, which unfortunately for social media at large is a rather rare and special feat

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Vergiliaux
@Vergiliaux

when we (eventually) roll out Metrics for people who depend on them to run their business (creators who derive their income from Posting), they will be opt-in and deliberately convoluted to access; no front-and-center numbers.

I appreciate this. I'm autistic and like my data, but I also don't want Getting Seen™️ rotting my brain again. I also enjoy having folks sticking around because they genuinely like my content instead of, say, rallies to follow XYZ and I might not be somebody's cup of tea down the line (which is fine).

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