I have some bad news. I've just been notified with an email from Apple. Subjects aligned. Your Apple news channel.

Oh, yeah, hasn't been updated. It's this marker dot org. We noticed that you have not published to your marker the door channel in three months or more.

Your channel will be removed in one week period. Oh wow. Good grief regards the Apple news team. Oh well. It doesn't say that if I publish now it'll get me out of this.

Like it just says your channel is going to be removed in a week period. Like there's no if you don't publish. Yeah, did we have a friend who got the same notice but the but their notice said if you publish something in a reactivated maybe I'm just near.

I think that was Daniel Jocke but I don't know anyway. Yeah, it's the mark of the work channel. I don't care. I like I don't know how many.

First of all, I like I published my channel just as an RSS feed that I submitted to them in my regular RSS feed. I don't have any like special Apple news tags.

So I think they were deprecating RSS based channels anyway, right? Are they deprecating them or something anyway? I'm kept up with that.

I tried to do the same thing and something must be wrong about my RSS feed because they always refused it for reasons. I never quite understood and I didn't care enough to fix it and nobody has ever ever ever asked me about it.

Now to be fair, I probably have one tenth of your readership but nevertheless I can't remember a time that anyone was like, hey man, can you put that in Apple news?

I honestly would be surprised if my readership could be divided evenly into tenths. Like I might have eight people reading it in Apple news. I think it's going to be a very small number.

Yeah, I never liked that Apple news app and I never tried to get my annually updated blog into it for multiple reasons.

Well, darn, I guess I'm going to lose all those eight pages. I don't even measure pages anymore.

How did they even show up? How would you tell someone from Apple news what they have in their own user agent?

I assume there's probably at least a crawler user agent and I would assume that every time they view the page, maybe... I probably just want to report after sign up for it.

Because I don't think it's actually making a web request to you each time, right?

Yeah, you have to go to the special Apple web page with no API and you have to look at a graph where they round things.

Yeah, right. I have to go to Apple web connect or something and look at only opt-in stats for people who viewed my content.

I don't even look... I don't have server logs enabled. I don't even have Google Analytics enabled anymore, haven't for years.

When I publish something on my site, I have absolutely no idea how many pages it gets and it's incredibly liberating.

I highly recommend anybody out there who has stuff online, remove the counters. You will be shocked how great it feels.

Or just have no idea if it's a site like me because then you don't have to worry about it either way.

Speaking of Apple's websites where you supposedly can go to see some kind of number, you would think that the one web system they would have that would be...

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