The discussion revolves around tracking active users—defined as registered users who posted at least once in the last month. alefattorini seeks a reliable method to count such users and compare engagement over time, noting that login-based activity (e.g., via the “about” menu) doesn’t reflect actual posting behavior. codinghorror suggests sorting users by replies, but alefattorini clarifies the need for counts, not lists. Mittineague proposes exporting users as CSV and using scripts for analysis, which alefattorini later confirms works, especially with the “last_post_at” field. vbdubz asks about a dashboard for historical monthly post counts, and dlopezm recommends comparing monthly user reports to calculate new activity. The thread highlights a gap in built-in reporting for post-based activity metrics.
I want gather this data, for active users i mean registered users who made a post at least in the last month.
I guess that i can have this just with a data filter on users export action, in this way I can answer questions like:
Can you suggest me any better way?
Read this but also playing with GA it’s impossibile to extract such data
Sort of, active means they logged in, not that they posted.
I can have hundred of logged in users but if anyone posts it’s unuseful.
And in this way how can I compare?
And how can I know who not just how many?
Am I the only one who wants a feature such this? 
Sorry for bump this, but I need to know active members where for active users i mean registered users who made a post at least in the last month.
Is there any way?
Go to /users then select month and order by replies.
Sorry, not who but how many! Users counts also 0 posts people
Sort by number of posts, scroll down and count.
Another possibility is to export Users as a CSV file (it may take a while if you have a lot of members) and then you can write a custom script to do all kinds of amazing things 
Eheh 
Jeff be serious please! Counting manually hundreds of member every month is not smart 
Edit: I know, you’re asking me why. That’s my why:
https://experts.feverbee.com/t/what-exactly-is-an-active-user/1375/6?u=ale_fattorini
I need to count engagement then count “poster” people is more interesting than just “logged in”, even though interesting
What do you think?
Thanks for the suggestion! I just exported the csv and used “last_post_at” thanks very much.
At the time of my first post this field was not present
Hey all, is there a Dashboard view that would show how many unique users posted at least once during the current month? The CSV can show that for the current month but not for months past.
Hi @vbdubz , you could download the users report each month, and then calculate the number of new posts in the month by substracting the new report’s information minus last report’s information.
