Ask HN: View Count for Submissions

Please show the number of views a submission has. Both clickthroughs to the submitted URL and views of HN pages (like this one).

In the absence of upvotes, view count is probably a nice proxy for reader's interest. I'm a poor voter. I expect others are as well.

Maybe stop counting views when a story becomes locked.

(Is this how to submit a feature request? This https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 thread is closed. And the FAQ doesn't give guidance. Apologies if I'm not doing this right.)

Edited for clarity.