We have attempted to archive our main channel chat history into the post function every month, and then initiate a new main channel chat. Given the volume of our messages, amounting to a few thousand each month, we noticed that the backup process halts after a certain number of posts/replies have be…

[immagine] Leo Wong: Given the volume of our messages, amounting to a few thousand each month A few thousand per month doesn’t sound like too much, to me. We do see sites currently using chat at a rate of 10-30K messages per week. Can you share your numbers with a bit more precision? [imm…

[immagine] Dave McClure: We do see sites currently using chat at a rate of 10-30K messages per week. Can you share your numbers with a bit more precision? Sorry for the naive question, I am struggling to find where to see the chat statistics . please let me know.

It’s an understandable question. We don’t yet have any reporting for chat on the admin dashboard, which is where you might look first for something like this. There are some stats available on /about though (chat messages in the last 7 days and last 30 days, for example). Those alone would help inf…

[image] Thanks Dave, here is our chat stats: Last 24 hours: 675 Last 7 days: 3.5k Last 30 days: 15.2K All time: 45.0k So, it seems that if we archive about 15K posts, we might encounter some problems or hit limits?

Building a strong link between chat/forum is one of our major goals. We will keep discussing this internally, so this might not move much in the near future but improving this is something I think would make sense.

We have developed an internal plugin that would auto backup the chat every day to a post (with open AI summarized title). auto close the channel every certain day such as 30 days and open a new channel. We have not yet put it into the production environment. we hope that can help our community us…

Funzioni di backup/archiviazione cronologia chat

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Leo_Wong (Leo Wong) 31 Luglio 2023, 7:42am 3

Scusa per la domanda ingenua, sto faticando a trovare dove vedere le statistiche della chat. Per favore, fammelo sapere.

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