Jayrajm97 is looking for a way to track the number of views on individual replies within a topic. Currently, Discourse only provides view counts for the topic as a whole, not for each reply. Monkey doubts that this feature is possible due to resource concerns. However, alexandrutrifan suggests using the Post Views Counter theme-component, which can display the number of unique views for each post, including replies.
Right now discourse gives an activity bar where we can see the number of replies, views, users, likes, and links of the topic.
I wanna know if there’s a way to find out the number of views on replies.
Any hack or way from the API
For example:
This is the reply on a post
Here I can see the number of likes(23) but no views.
I really doubt this is possible. That would be such a waste of resources.
Hi @jayrajm97,
have you looked at the Post Views Counter theme-component yet?
Installing the theme-component for your theme will show the number of unique views of any post separately. I think this should solve your question.
It even shows the number of views on private message posts and thus can be used as a “seen / read” messaging functionality.
Here is how it looks on our forum:
