Upcoming CSS change: View Counts

[u/powerlanguage]

On Monday next week (2017-05-15) we’ll be adding a view number to posts that will be displayed to mods and OP in the sidebar infobox.

It will look like this.

This change will add the following elements to the linkinfo div in the sidebar of comments pages:

<div class="views">
    <span class="view-count">709.9k</span>
    <span class="unit">views</span>
</div>

If you have styled the linkinfo div you may need to make changes to your subreddit CSS.

See the r/modsupport post for more details on this feature

[u/D0cR3d]

Thanks for adding this. Will this show history data on posts made before this is implemented live?

[u/powerlanguage → u/D0cR3d]

No, only since we started the service (a few weeks back). We may look at adding a backfill sometime in the future, but Reddit is so geared towards new content that it wasn't worth the investment of work upfront.

[u/D0cR3d → u/powerlanguage]

I understand and totally makes sense. What about the top 10 in r/sub/top? Might be interesting to at least see the top info.