The initial question in the discussion was why no front-end publically shows a viewcounter on each post, I'm not really sure myself either though it would be interesting to have a dialogue about it at some point.

I vaguely recall the view counter was talked about in some post of the past. The gist of the story I got was it being a source of depression that a post on trending having so much votes to 3 digits and a view count of less than 10. This was around bid bot era.

I wanted that feature displayed again as a hard pill to swallow just to ego check authors that let the rewards they get right into their heads.

Hitting an average of a minute and at least 10 unique views are my threshold of at least I'm doing something right. Yeah, been monitoring what I shitpost once in a while and it bothers me if I don't hit those mini targets.