Hi there and thanks for your work on this extension.
I tried to enable it and it seems to work just fine, but I was surprised to see that the view count starts at 0 for existing discussions. I can imagine the technical reasons for that, but I don't think it is mentioned anywhere in the documentation. From a usability point of view, it doesn't look too good to show 7 years worth of discussions with 0 views count. I think it would be nice to have a feature that allows to hide the view count for discussions that were created before the view count was enabled. In addition / alternative to this, it would be nice to be able to record the views while disabling the display of the view counter.
Maybe this points to the need for the DiscussionWasViewed
event and view counter (and crawlers filtering) to be implemented in the flarum core so that different applications can use that data for display, sorting etc?