"i've made it so my site has a counter at the bottom. it increments when someone requests the page" "neat hack! but it does introduce a dependency, you've added some kinda state to your website" "yeah it kind of ruins the idea of a website really, it was mostly just put there as a joke, but i agree it's wrong, so i'm going to remove it" "yeah best to remove it and never try anything like that again" "yeah. im gonna get back to work on laying out the tables for my downloads page now"