In a discussion titled “Reading Confirmations” under the Feature category, janns6023 asks if Discourse supports tracking who has read specific posts and when, particularly for event participation and news updates, ruling out polls. Carine5 agrees with the need. Lilly welcomes the user and suggests using Data Explorer for such tracking, linking to a relevant Meta Discourse thread. sam confirms that while Discourse has a built-in feature for group messages that tracks reading, it’s not yet available for regular topics. They recommend using Data Explorer for now and note that a plugin could be developed to mirror the group reading counter. Sam also highlights that “Recent views” provides useful analytics, illustrated with two screenshots showing reading statistics and view trends over time.
Hi,
I am currently deciding whether Discourse is the correct platform for me or not.
I need to be able to create posts for which I see who has read them, and when. We need that for event participations and news posts. Polls are not an option for me.
Is there such feature in Discourse or is there a plugin realizing this?
Best regards!
I agree with you
Hi @janns6023 
welcome 
I’m not sure what format or how much data you are looking for, but you can probably use data explorer for something like this.
Note we do have a built in feature for groups message that can be enabled which does provide this feature.
I would recommend going with data explorer for now for topics but it is a feature that can be built, especially in a plugin to mirror our group reading counter.
Recent views also surfaces very interesting information:
