There used to be, in the days of Steemit, a view counter on posts. One of the reasons why I stopped blogging was because I saw one day the amount of views I was getting drop massively, in spite of no decline in followers. The next day or the day after, the view counter disappeared entirely so I could no longer even see if my posts were being read.
In the age of internet censorship and shadow banning, I think that it is worth bringing back this view counter, so that people can see whether their words are even being observed by others, and if so, by how many.
The problem is that it's quite hard to gauge how often a post is red across multiple front ends, steemit did it because at the time there was basically only one front end. Now we have lots of readers on eccency, hive.blog, peakd, so if we were to display a page viewer feature, it would be per front end which wouldn't be very accurate.
We could have it at the api level where front ends could note whenever someone requests to read a page, but first it would easily be gamed and second sometimes posts are loaded even though they aren't red, some front ends load posts just to show the first 5 lines to incite people to read them.
I had no idea it was that complex, but I am surprised and appreciative of the fact I even got a meaningful response. I never really devoted much time to the question posed as I wasn't sure my reply would really get looked at. But, I will now have a proper think and perhaps come up with a better idea that is innovative and unseen elsewhere - and hopefully not quite so complicated or risky to implement.
No pressure :) it's okay to not have an idea in the moment.
Peakd.com has good stats, if you don't use brave browser.
Actually, can you tell me what the benefit and/or problems would be with switching to brave? I have heard of it but still currently use chrome.
Peakd's stats don't work with brave shields up.
Brave blocks ads and pays you to look at their ads.
You can choose what scripts are allowed to load in the browser.
It blocks tracking cookies and javascript.
This all ads up to better privacy, and small amounts of BAT, their token.
Thanks. I think I will stick with chrome then. I tend not to trust things that say they're about protecting your privacy. I am sure most of the VPN's are just there to capture people's information while they are specifically doing the things they do not want others to see them doing. I have trust issues, with people at least. Lol. I appreciate the response though, and am using peaked now.
It's open source.
The guy that invented javascript created it.
You may be right.
We can be certain that chrome won't be keeping any secrets.
The way I see it, if I ever do anything truly valuable for the world, which I certainly intend to, someone will dig up all my skeletons and use them against me regardless of how well I tried to hide them. And as long as by the time that happens, I am the best version of myself I've ever been, then anyone who wants to judge me for my past rather than see my mistakes as the reason for me evolving in the right direction, can fuck off anyway.
Nothing is private on the interwebz.
I agree with you on the vpn's.
Thank you, I just had a look and the UI looks really good. I will likely start using that.