Charlotte the Useless Ghost

the region of space known informally as the Xross-Media Bar

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.

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;
}

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

I honestly and unironically really love your willingness to call this out

the wife had a very important bundle of feeties to report

quaff the nog?