diff --git a/resources/sql/autopatches/20170825.phame.01.post.views.sql b/resources/sql/autopatches/20170825.phame.01.post.views.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5cb5c9c7b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/sql/autopatches/20170825.phame.01.post.views.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+ALTER TABLE {$NAMESPACE}_phame.phame_post
+  DROP COLUMN views;
diff --git a/src/__phutil_library_map__.php b/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
index f0c9271634..4575908ef8 100644
--- a/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
+++ b/src/__phutil_library_map__.php
@@ -4421,7 +4421,6 @@ phutil_register_library_map(array(
     'PhamePostTransactionQuery' => 'applications/phame/query/PhamePostTransactionQuery.php',
     'PhamePostTransactionType' => 'applications/phame/xaction/PhamePostTransactionType.php',
     'PhamePostViewController' => 'applications/phame/controller/post/PhamePostViewController.php',
-    'PhamePostViewsTransaction' => 'applications/phame/xaction/PhamePostViewsTransaction.php',
     'PhamePostVisibilityTransaction' => 'applications/phame/xaction/PhamePostVisibilityTransaction.php',
     'PhameSchemaSpec' => 'applications/phame/storage/PhameSchemaSpec.php',
     'PhameSite' => 'applications/phame/site/PhameSite.php',
@@ -10054,7 +10053,6 @@ phutil_register_library_map(array(
     'PhamePostTransactionQuery' => 'PhabricatorApplicationTransactionQuery',
     'PhamePostTransactionType' => 'PhabricatorModularTransactionType',
     'PhamePostViewController' => 'PhameLiveController',
-    'PhamePostViewsTransaction' => 'PhamePostTransactionType',
     'PhamePostVisibilityTransaction' => 'PhamePostTransactionType',
     'PhameSchemaSpec' => 'PhabricatorConfigSchemaSpec',
     'PhameSite' => 'PhabricatorSite',
diff --git a/src/applications/phame/controller/post/PhamePostViewController.php b/src/applications/phame/controller/post/PhamePostViewController.php
index 7dbaddc17a..63adedb7ae 100644
--- a/src/applications/phame/controller/post/PhamePostViewController.php
+++ b/src/applications/phame/controller/post/PhamePostViewController.php
@@ -18,25 +18,6 @@ final class PhamePostViewController
     $is_live = $this->getIsLive();
     $is_external = $this->getIsExternal();
 
-    // Register a blog "view" count
-    //
-    if (!$post->isDraft() && !$post->isArchived()) {
-      $unguarded = AphrontWriteGuard::beginScopedUnguardedWrites();
-      $xactions = array();
-      $xactions[] = id(new PhamePostTransaction())
-        ->setTransactionType(PhamePostViewsTransaction::TRANSACTIONTYPE)
-        ->setNewValue(null);
-
-      $editor = id(new PhamePostEditor())
-        ->setActor($viewer)
-        ->setContentSourceFromRequest($request)
-        ->setContinueOnMissingFields(true)
-        ->setContinueOnNoEffect(true);
-
-      $editor->applyTransactions($post, $xactions);
-      unset($unguarded);
-    }
-
     $header = id(new PHUIHeaderView())
       ->addClass('phame-header-bar')
       ->setUser($viewer);
@@ -170,11 +151,6 @@ final class PhamePostViewController
       ->setUser($viewer)
       ->setObject($post);
 
-    $views = id(new PhutilNumber($post->getViews()));
-    $properties->addProperty(
-      pht('Views'),
-      pht('%s', $views));
-
     $is_live = $this->getIsLive();
     $is_external = $this->getIsExternal();
     $next_view = new PhameNextPostView();
diff --git a/src/applications/phame/editor/PhamePostEditor.php b/src/applications/phame/editor/PhamePostEditor.php
index 9dea9692bf..488d7a4938 100644
--- a/src/applications/phame/editor/PhamePostEditor.php
+++ b/src/applications/phame/editor/PhamePostEditor.php
@@ -32,12 +32,6 @@ final class PhamePostEditor
     if ($object->isDraft() || ($object->isArchived())) {
       return false;
     }
-    foreach ($xactions as $xaction) {
-      switch ($xaction->getTransactionType()) {
-        case PhamePostViewsTransaction::TRANSACTIONTYPE:
-        return false;
-      }
-    }
     return true;
   }
 
@@ -47,12 +41,6 @@ final class PhamePostEditor
     if ($object->isDraft() || $object->isArchived()) {
       return false;
     }
-    foreach ($xactions as $xaction) {
-      switch ($xaction->getTransactionType()) {
-        case PhamePostViewsTransaction::TRANSACTIONTYPE:
-        return false;
-      }
-    }
     return true;
   }
 
diff --git a/src/applications/phame/storage/PhamePost.php b/src/applications/phame/storage/PhamePost.php
index c3ec4d4608..a9525e0be7 100644
--- a/src/applications/phame/storage/PhamePost.php
+++ b/src/applications/phame/storage/PhamePost.php
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ final class PhamePost extends PhameDAO
   protected $phameTitle;
   protected $body;
   protected $visibility;
-  protected $views;
   protected $configData;
   protected $datePublished;
   protected $blogPHID;
@@ -41,8 +40,7 @@ final class PhamePost extends PhameDAO
       ->setBlogPHID($blog->getPHID())
       ->attachBlog($blog)
       ->setDatePublished(PhabricatorTime::getNow())
-      ->setVisibility(PhameConstants::VISIBILITY_PUBLISHED)
-      ->setViews(0);
+      ->setVisibility(PhameConstants::VISIBILITY_PUBLISHED);
 
     return $post;
   }
@@ -130,7 +128,6 @@ final class PhamePost extends PhameDAO
         'subtitle' => 'text64',
         'phameTitle' => 'sort64?',
         'visibility' => 'uint32',
-        'views' => 'uint32',
         'mailKey' => 'bytes20',
         'headerImagePHID' => 'phid?',
 
diff --git a/src/applications/phame/xaction/PhamePostViewsTransaction.php b/src/applications/phame/xaction/PhamePostViewsTransaction.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 2260a1d752..0000000000
--- a/src/applications/phame/xaction/PhamePostViewsTransaction.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-final class PhamePostViewsTransaction
-  extends PhamePostTransactionType {
-
-  const TRANSACTIONTYPE = 'phame.post.views';
-
-  public function generateOldValue($object) {
-    return $object->getViews();
-  }
-
-  public function applyInternalEffects($object, $value) {
-    $views = $object->getViews();
-    $views++;
-    $object->setViews($views);
-  }
-
-}