On our forum, people have read as much as 10k-40k and it seems odd that they have read that much (me myself has read 32.7k) and I’m confused to what that means, does “read” mean the characters? Or the amount of posts if it is the amount of posts, there is something very wrong :joy:

I didn’t see any example of strangeness here, but I did find one example at SitePoint (need to be logged in to see it) On this page - Week, Read descending SitePoint Forums | Web Development & Design Community there is Received Given Topics Replies Viewed Read Visits 0 0 0 1 7 25.2k 4 yet that members profile has SeenJun 2 and 6 days visited 19m read time 131 posts read https://www.sitepoint.com/community/users/deva23/summary Although a member could conceivably read 25,2K posts over 6 days, being able to do so in 19 minutes time seems unlikely and if they haven’t visited since June why would there be anything other than zeroes for Week? Because I don’t see similar here, I guessing it’s more a SitePoint thing that it is Discourse.

We have never created a 20’000 post topic, also how could we make the forum bot not lock PM’s at 500 posts? @Mittineague yes, but the strangeness for us is, that users are not always that active & we migrated from another forum, maybe that affects this? Even though all the stats of users reset. But the accrual forum didn’t.

I know when SitePoint imported a lot of old vBulletin content all members post counts were set to zero. I haven’t done an import of older topics and posts so I don’t know, but maybe a “rebake all” (I don’t know the proper command off-hand) would “pull in” the older posts and add them to the post counts? Beware, AFAIK “rebake all” will most likely take a long time to run. It may not be worth trying for something that may not work in adjusting the post counts. [image] zombieslayer124: how could we make the forum bot not lock PM’s at 500 posts? There’s a setting for that in Admin → Settings → Posting auto close messages post count [default: 500] Maximum number of posts allowed in a message before it is automatically closed (0 to disable) auto close topics post count [default: 10000] Maximum number of posts allowed in a topic before it is automatically closed (0 to disable) Note that these were added because long topics / messages can be a painful resource hit.

I was able to repro on my localhost A couple days ago I created ScrollGuy1. After the account was approved he visited but did not read any topics. The next day, he went to the 100 post challenge topic. [image] Being a new member, it opened at the first post. He did not read any posts, but used the progress slider to jump the the last post, and then promptly left. Waiting until today to give sidekiq a chance to run jobs, I went to the Users page and ScrollGuy1’s Profile. [image] [image] It seems the Profile post count is when “the blue (read-state) dot goes away” and the Users post count is using “highest post number seen minus lowest previously unseen post number seen”

I had SkipGuy1 (née ScrollGuy1) use a topics replies columns “jump button” to go directly to the last post of a couple of never before entered 38 posts topics. His post count in the Users page went up 76 posts, his profile post count went up by 2 Chasing down the elusive posts read value was an adventure. The Users page gets the posts_read value from directory_items directory_items gets the value from user_visits The value in users_visits is set from user.rb user.rb gets the value from topic_users topic_users has “last read” and “highest seen”. IMHO the code does a great job of keeping track of what is “unread” for me, a great job of remembering where I left off reading in a topic, and a great job of sending me Notifications. I’m guessing that when posts_read was hooked to this table it was assumed, consciously or otherwise, that members would enter a topic at the beginning and progress sequentially through the posts. That is, “jumps” were unforeseen. A members profile on the other hand gets the posts_read value from user_stats I’m thinking it might be a relatively easy fix to have the Users page also use the user_stats table. But I haven’t looked into it enough or tried any code changes yet to know for sure.

I will be undergoing a test from mon-fri on our forums, they will be reading everything for a week.

[image] This is a glitch, no it has nothing to do with “needs approval” or anything.

The “posts read” should be under the “summary” tab. Mobile view doesn’t have that?

Mobile view does. But this user has an invalid time as to “last seen” since something was posted afterwards.

Are post read counts per user accurate?

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Are post read counts per user accurate?

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