Since they removed that entity bar, more than half my reads have evaporated. The reads and even views in my stats have nosedived. I mean, I wasn't expecting to earn real income off my blog. In fact, I was pleasantly pleased to see that I was earning about a dollar a day. This month, I hadn't yet broken the $10 mark the last time I checked a few days ago. The pain is that, without those reads and interactions, the connections with other writers I want from this effort are diminishing rapidly.