removing analytics
I've removed analytics off my dashboard. I've found myself starting to get anxious about it, and it's started to affect how I view my posts. It's a battle, I wanna write, I also wanna write something people will like. But I don't want to put too much emphasis on the latter.
I honestly never expected for this blog to get the viewership it does, and so when I started to notice I was paying too much attention to the like-to-view ratio... I knew I had to kill that.
So I've implemented the following CSS to completely remove the analytics tabs. It's easily reversible of course, but it being on the "out-of-sight-out-of-mind" it will naturally fade from my brain and I won't look at it. And I'm too lazy to go back and reverse it. I'm also too lazy to try and find the "analytics" page itself and copy it into the URL.
body > header > nav > span:nth-child(3) > a:nth-child(1){
display: none;
}
body > main > ul > li:nth-child(1) > small > a:nth-child(3){
display: none;
}
It basically removes the "analytics" links on the dashboard, both the one on the main dashboard as well as the blog's individual dashboard.
It sucks, because I do like seeing who's viewed my posts, seeing people of different countries all see what I've wrote. But I've started to second guess myself whenever I post something and wondering if there was some intrinsic reason the post didn't do well or whatever.
For some posts, I fully expect them to not do well, nobody really cares to see me ranting about my favorite games or a rhetorical analysis on some book I've read. However, some that are in the same camp of other posts that do do well, I start to wonder if there was something I did wrong.
I used to not even care about any of it. But then I started seeing some of my posts get over a thousand views and 90+ likes on some of them. I almost felt like I had an obligation that I had to fulfill rather than just a hobby.
I think it kinda just speaks to this era of "content" that we find ourselves in. Nobody can do anything for themselves. You're either compelled to trying to cater to an audience or pimping yourself out to make a couple extra bucks.
It's stupid I know, and I probably sound like a hypocrite. At the end of the day, I started this for me, to get something out, and I want to keep that energy of self-expression at the forefront. It's kinda hard to beat your own psychology, so it's better to remove the trigger completely.
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