Hey @justinw!!
While I agree with @nonameslefttouse, @ew-and-patterns and many more steemians here that recovering and getting back in function the view counter, is and will be a very welcome feature to have for content producers & authors. I want to add another old feature that we all also had and enjoyed here on stemit long time ago.
Sheez mate, please, restore again the internal DMs (private direct messages) within the steemit platform UI/UX... ¡For God Sake! It doesn't matter if these 'transactions' are going to be registered on the Steem Blockchain or not. That's not exactly the goal mate. Whether it can be implemented in Hivemind jointly with the view counter or way before. But crap mate, we actually need a quick and more expedite way of private communications between each other without have to appeal to the infamous Discord, Steemchat or the undesirable practices on the rise of send Wallet Memos for that crap. };)
I was not around here, when private messaging was a thing, but I like the idea of not having to use Discord^^.
There's never been DMs here
Pft @pharesim. Under what sort of heavy rock you've been hidden below?
You are old enough here in steemit to know that we actually did have DM features within steemit interface. I even remember having used this feature to talk with @sykochica plenty of times when she was very active here and also on the original first steemitchat.com website.
Well, unless you don't remember. You never used that feature before. Or you wouldn't classify what I'm talking about as DMs. };)
PS. Don't worry @ew-and-patterns. Let's give to our good friend @pharesim a little more time to refresh his shipwrecked memory. LoL
You are refering to something else. There was https://steemit.chat, which has rebranded to https://steem.chat quite a while ago to show that it's not affiliated with steemit. Those have always been witness projects.
There's never been DMs on steemit.com
Yes, on a second thought I think you are right @pharesim. :)
I have the hunch that that feature I recall we had before within the old steemit UI was 'Notifications' and not DMs.
Yep, there was a time when we didn't need SteemWorld, GinaBot or any of those external Discord/Python bots to know who the hell interacted with us in our content. };)
Cheers!!
Do you have an idea what he is talking about if there have never been DMs here ?
Nope
Maybe steem.chat.