Show Views instead of Replies
The discussion revolves around displaying the number of views instead of replies on the homepage. Tiago_Amaral initially asked for help, having successfully hidden the reply count using CSS but struggling to show the view count.
@Tiago_Amaral and devrelkyle expressed interest in finding a solution, with Lilly offering to work on it. tshenry contributed by adding a plugin outlet to make it easier to display the view count. They provided a code snippet to add to a theme component:
<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="/connectors/above-latest-topic-list-item-post-count/views-count">
{{topic.views}} views
</script>
Lilly later created a theme component with settings to control the display of views, replies, and last activity time on the main category page, sharing it on meta.discourse.org.
I’m looking for this very feature. Have you found any solution to this? @Tiago_Amaral
Any updates @Discourse?
i may take a stab at this in next few days if i have time. i am working on a theme component that does something similar.
I went ahead and added a plugin outlet to make it extra easy:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/22238
If you add something like this to the Head section of a theme component, you’ll see it adds the views. You can add additional HTML if needed and style to taste from there 
<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name="/connectors/above-latest-topic-list-item-post-count/views-count">
{{topic.views}} views
</script>
oh nice. thank you. @tshenry
ok so i put this functionality into a theme component that has settings for controlling all three stats in the topic list of the main category page - total number of views, replies count, and time since last activity.