Also, I had a couple of additional questions with regards to getting Discourse set up:
I realize Discourse has an in-built Analytics dashboard. If we want to add and report on additional custom metrics, how easy is it to add new code to query backend tables?
How easy is it to create custom rules for users to build trust and develop custom badges?
Finally, saw on the website that there are two different options for hosting the solution: on-premise and Discourse hosted? How do they differ in terms of features/support and how should one think about that?
Quick follow up: it seems like if we do a Discourse hosted installation, it’s currently not possible to write custom backend SQL queries to gather and report out on additional metrics. Is that correct?
Also, if we do on-premise, is it possible to query backend tables and create these custom metrics?
So, to summarize, it is possible to analyze session logs to develop custom metrics as long we continually run and download a backup regularly through some script?