Can I see who viewed a specific topic in Discourse?

I’m asking if there’s a Discourse feature or plugin that allows *any* logged-in user to see a list of specific individuals who have accessed or viewed a particular topic. Or is this information strictly for administrators/internal tracking only?

You can allow a group of users (even the trust level 0 group) to run a data explorer query, which could return the users who viewed the topic.

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You could probably take the Data Explorer query and somehow put it into a theme component and then display it somewhere using plugin outlets, if you want that to be visible. I dunno tho, just guessing.

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Group messages can show a read state. I don’t know if there are any hard limitations as to why this can’t be enabled on other topics too, but it may be an avenue to explore?

ETA: Actually, there is a Feature request for something like this with similar suggestions in:

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