You're curating photos one at a time inside the host lightbox. The image looks fine. You want to know — is anyone actually engaging with this one? Until now you'd close the lightbox, scroll down to the Top Viewed / Top Downloaded sections, scan the leaderboards, and try to find the photo in the list.
Three small chips now ride in the lightbox metadata column alongside size + dimensions + format:
- N views — how many guests opened this photo's lightbox.
- N downloads — how many guests saved the original file.
- N reports — how many guests flagged it (destructive rose tint to match the tile flag badge).
Each chip self-suppresses when the count is zero, so a cold-start photo doesn't carry hollow "0 views" noise. The view + download chips stay calm muted-text styling; the reports chip uses the destructive accent so a host triaging the flagged section can land on the right photo and see the count without re-scanning the tile-corner badge through the dialog overlay.
These are host-only signals. The guest lightbox keeps its existing posture — guests see their own like as the only engagement signal on a photo. Views and downloads are an oracle (counting other guests' behavior); flag counts could create feedback loops if surfaced. Both are intentionally walled off from guests.
If you've curated a long gallery before, this collapses a five-step "is this one popular?" workflow into a glance. If you haven't yet — you will, and you'll appreciate it.
