My discourse community heavily uses attachments and they really want to see download numbers, similar to how links show number of clicks.
I found this older discourse discussion that implies the existence of a download counter, but I can’t find any information about how to turn it on or if it got removed.
I was also searching for this answer, then re-read the linked topic and others that referenced something like an attachment counter.
They are talking about topic links counter, which I suppose was used back then to directly link to attachments, but I think this isn’t done this way anymore.
On the linked topic above they’re testing clicks on an attachment which is actually a link to CloudFront, while AFAIK currently new attachments are proxied through a [instance]/uploads/short-url/[hash].[ext] route.
That said, I really think this is hugely useful and I’d also like to know if this is something planned to be supported on Discourse - using this upload route to increment an attachment counter and show this counter beside the attachment link, just like external links.
I realize this is a very old thread, but is there a 2.9.0.beta.10 answer to this question?
Like the original poster, my organization would like to be able to count the number of times attachments are downloaded. Ultimately, a “top 50 downloads with counts” would be a target report.
I’m looking around in Data Explorer, but don’t quite understand the relationships yet.