We want it back too! The new Trials Central uses a completely different news publishing system from the old. It's a lot more versatile, but also a lot more complex. To speed up the delivery of content the system uses caching which means it doesn't have to render complete web pages every time they're requested. The upside of caching is that content is delivered faster. The downside is that the article hit counter doesn't register every view and grossly under-counts the number of views. We're actively looking for a way round this or an add-on counter that registers views properly.