disabling the upvote button and analytics feature

28 Nov, 2025

I have removed the upvote button from my bearblog. You can too by pasting this code at the bottom of the “Edit theme CSS” section in the “Themes” tab in the dashboard.

/* Remove the whole upvote wrapper */  
small:has(.upvote-button) {  
    display: none !important;  
}  

I had a post open, I think stored in a cache, and it looked like it didn’t work at first but then I refreshed and it was gone.

I also disabled “Collect analytics” which I did from the advanced settings page.

I’ve found myself influenced and being pulled to the analytics page over just writing for me. I think it’s better this way. Or at least, I’m going to try it out like this for the next couple months and see how it feels.

I hope to be less influenced by arbitrary number-go-up-number-go-down reptile brain psychology.

Thanks for stopping by.

P.S. I just learned that " ' " (or apostrophe) is different from " ` " (or backtick). Also known as the thing that shares the key with squiggly line thing " ~ " above the "Tab" and below the "esc" key. Good for me.