Is there an explanation on how Discourse tracks posts read, and other information?

[noornahas]

Just generally interested in how “posts read” and other statistics are tracked.

[Arkshine]

Welcome

Here is some information about that:

Topic Views, Posts Read, and Reading Time

This is a reference guide for describing how topic views, posts read, and reading time are tracked The user profile page for all users contains statistics about that user’s read time, topics viewed, and posts read. [image] Topic Views Topic views are the number of topics a user has clicked on. For example, if a user clicks on a topic and loads that page in their browser, this would be considered viewing the topic. Unread Topics will have a blue dot next to them. [image] A use…

How does post tracking work in Discourse

Discourse tracks read time for every post users see on the screen. This system has evolved over the years and I find I often need to refer back to the code to figure out how this works and why it exists. This post covers the painful technical details of the current implementation. How the Discourse client tracks timing Post timing tracking is implemented in screen-track.js.es6. This module is responsible for tracking how long a post has been on the screen and how long the topic has been on sc…