I notice that Discourse tracks posts viewed and time viewed. We are looking to use Discourse as a product support community, where you are given an account on product registration, with SSO to eliminate the pesky registration step I’d really like to capture lurker data to see if a lurker performs better than someone who has never viewed the forum, and also compare them against active forum users. While I expect this to be a lot of manual work on my behalf initially, I’d still like to capture that if I can. Is that possible?

From what I am understanding of our implementation, users will automatically be logged on. So this part shouldn’t be a problem, since any triallist will automatically have credentials and authentication. Of course this will not work if they are finding the community through non-standard avenues (google search, etc) but the links we control to the community automatically log you in.

As you are new to the forums, I wanted to point out: [image] Discourse Data Explorer Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Data Explorer allows you to make SQL queries against your live database, allowing for up-to-the-minute stats reporting. open_book Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. information_source If you’re looking for examples or support for any custom queries, you can find lots of topics in our #data-reporting category under the #sql-query tag. If there’s not one to suit your par… That may allow you to skip downloading your database. :slight_smile:

Can I download a user database and sort by time viewed?

Community Building Data & reporting

HAWK (Hawk) March 28, 2022, 4:53am 2

Discourse doesn’t collect data from anonymous (not logged in) users in a granular way but you can plug in your Google Analytics UA code and track their movement through your site.

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Can I download a user database and sort by time viewed?

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