Techokami

Big agree, I hate them. Like twitter needed to be more anxiety inducing lol

what about for people that enjoy seeing the numbers go up, but aren't bothered by seeing them stay at zero?

I appreciate that y’all are doing what you can to minimize the inherent harm of social media on this platform

Cognitohazard! Yes! That is exactly how I describe the majority of Internet Behavior to my friends. It's the non-anomalous version of an idea that is harmful to your mind

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.

The views number on Twitter is a HUGE turn off for me, fuckin hate it. (x- x)

The horrible behaviors people are going to start engaging in to get their view counts up are going to be something to behold. From a safe distance.

Very very happy that this post comes from a member of staff, yall run a good website, thank you for all that you do.

cognitohazard is a cool word I wish it wasn't a terrible no good thing

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

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

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).

I'm really thankful for co-host not including like, share, or follow count, that seems a lot more likely to be the detriment of social media where it becomes a popularity contest

One more; if you're a ublock origin user on firefox, the filter twitter.com##a[href*="analytics"] should also work for removing Evil Number

just popped into twitter for the first time in a while and CHRIST that's AWFUL I can feel it doing horrible things to my brain!! I am Soothed coming back here....mmmmmm

god, thank you, what a shitty feature

for ublock users you can also use twitter.com##article[tabindex="-1"] a[href$="/analytics"]:upward(2) and twitter.com##a[href$="/analytics"]:upward(1) if you want to avoid :has()

YOU WILL NOT GET AWAY WITH THIS!!!

bless you for this extension

I tried the demetricator but couldn't figure out how to get it to leave the reply count, which is genuinely useful information because I can see if a tweet has replies before clicking on it to see the replies.

I don't want it to hide the number of replies in a tweet though...