Yes, it's up. But there are the different stats for "photostream" and "photos and video views". I've been up a bit since before the change and the change did not boost my levels as much as they did you, John, but I'd say higher than before.
I think the new layout is causing people to see shots I posted previously and click on them though. It used to be, after a shot moved off the first "page" on flickr it seldom advanced a lot after that but now the individual photos are counting up.
I don't get a lot of comments because I don't give a lot, lol. For me, flickr is primarily a place to showcase, not a social media site.
I just crossed 500,000 photo and video views (about 50,000 more total) and probably going to post about that in a bit.