Greetings! As of today, October 8, 2025, we have decided to stop counting and displaying “views” on experience reports.
The time to do this passed years back, but we just hadn’t removed the software or database tables. But, as described in previous posts about robot wars just outside most people’s perception, the number of robot hits to the site exceeded the number of human hits around 20 years go and the ratio is now more like 1000 to 1 robot hits to human hits.
Many robots now regularly misidentify themselves as being human-controlled, and beyond adding outlandishly annoying CAPTCHA-type human-detectors or other stupid interferences such as pushing all traffic through CloudFlare or similar monstrosities, there really is no practical way to tell human traffic from robot-spiders pretending to be human.
So, as of today, we will continue to collect generalized logs of web traffic for analysis that will include Experience Report views, but will stop displaying or attempting to record human views of Experience Reports. We now think they are pointless and probably worse than that: misleading.
Ah, the age of crappy software. Thanks to the humans and good robots. The tiny minority that you are :]
— earth