According to the following old issue, link counts should come back after a hard refresh page. But I’m not seeing this. Editing the post causes them to disappear forever for me. https://meta.discourse.org/t/editing-a-post-causes-click-count-on-links-to-be-lost/42109

Editing post causes link click counter to be lost

Topic		Replies	Views
Editing topic (or topic title) removes the click-count badge for links in that topic bug	6	1377	December 7, 2018
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