We’ve always had a counter on the rack pages that shows how many users have viewed a rack.
This counter also recorded visits from people who were not logged in. Over the years, most of those turned out to be bots, AI spiders, and web crawlers. The table grew to around 150 million rows. We had no reliable way to distinguish real traffic from automated traffic, so we now only count visits from logged-in MG users. All visit entries from non-logged-in users have been deleted. Which is a drastic 95% decrease for most racks.
We never considered this statistic particularly important, but unfortunately some people cared about it and are upset about the change. There was no bad intent behind this change!
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