# Plugin: Monthly automated community report
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** feedback
**Created:** [Avril 10, 2017, 9:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742 "2017-04-10T21:02:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [Avril 10, 2017, 9:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742/1 "2017-04-10T21:02:15Z")
What if every month, we could all be reminded of what we did as a community over the last 30 days. ❣
This type of content has historically been curated manually by community managers:
- [Monthly update on Flarum](https://discuss.flarum.org/d/5132-community-update-march-2017)
- [Yearly update for Discourse](https://blog.discourse.org/2016/01/a-year-in-discourse-recap-of-2015/)
- [A curated weekly newsletter for your community](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-curated-weekly-newsletter-for-your-community/76668)
I wanted to do one of these for the year 2016, but other tasks kept climbing higher up on the priority ladder. Besides, it’s pretty tedious, unrewarding work, since \>90% of it can be automated. So today I had a wee think about what such an automated report might look like:
### Basic stats
- How many topics & posts were created?
- How many different people participated in conversations?
- How many new users signed up?
- Were categories created/destroyed/changed?
🗒 I don’t think a comparison to last month would be necessary. The fact that we posted 10 more/fewer topics this month doesn’t really mean anything, but users might inclined to add meaning to it regardless, and we wouldn’t want that.
### Content highlights
- New articles added to #howto this month
- Most liked replies in #Support
### Top snapshot
🗒 Maybe it could be fun to treat this almost like a time capsule. No need to feature individual topics. Just do this:
As of today, {date}, these are the Top 10 topics you’ll find in `/top/monthly`:
- Displaying sub-categories in boxes
- Telegram Notifications Plugin
- Weekly or monthly “best new user” badge
- (…)
### Badge highlights
- “Helpdesk” was awarded to: Tom, Julia, Hannah (…)
- [“Best new user”](https://meta.discourse.org/t/weekly-or-monthly-best-new-user-badge/60065) was awarded to (…)
- “Contributor” was awarded to (…)
🗒 This section was my primary motivation for finally suggesting such a automated report. When we’ve awarded something like [Helpdesk](https://meta.discourse.org/badges/125/helpdesk), [Bug Reporter](https://meta.discourse.org/badges/114/bug-reporter) or [Contributor](https://meta.discourse.org/badges/107/contributor) to one of our members, I want to know about it. And those members deserve some extra recognition for it. This report could act as that extra bit of applause for those members who’ve gained a badge that requires a considerable bit of time and effort.
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Clearly there’s some overlap here with the [admin stats report](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-statistics-report/50943), but quite a few things need to change when we post stats publicly. The key difference is that we don’t want to do a lot of “rankings” in a public stats report. Again, this is because we don’t want to risk having users misunderstand the stats as a leaderboard. It’s not about that.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Avril 10, 2017, 9:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742/2 "2017-04-10T21:32:29Z")
Sure! I would love to see this morph into a selling tool for our communities as in
> LOOK how awesome your Discourse community is and all the COOL stuff it produced!
With the implied
> … doesn’t that make you super glad you pay us $100 or $200 a month to host it?!
That we could use it on our _own_ hosted communities is merely a bonus 😉
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### Author:  [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [Avril 11, 2017, 8:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742/3 "2017-04-11T08:02:57Z")
> [@erlend\_sh](#):
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> nous ne voulons pas risquer que les utilisateurs interprètent mal les statistiques
Dans cette optique (mais aussi pour d’autres raisons évidentes), il serait idéal de concevoir le plugin de manière à permettre aux administrateurs d’ajouter du texte sous chaque (?) élément du rapport, essentiellement pour faciliter la production de quelque chose comme [bilan annuel pour Discourse](https://blog.discourse.org/2016/01/a-year-in-discourse-recap-of-2015/). Mais il doit bien sûr fonctionner aussi en mode entièrement automatique.
> [@erlend\_sh](#):
>
> Points forts du contenu
Sans oublier : le sujet le plus aimé dans #Community Building > Praise 😉
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### Author:  [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)
#### Post date: [Avril 11, 2017, 9:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742/4 "2017-04-11T09:16:57Z")
Love that, it would be super useful. Let us customize it with extra text and it’s ok for me.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Décembre 29, 2018, 3:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742/5 "2018-12-29T03:36:28Z")
Note that @simon has been cooking up something along these lines as a “year in review” fun stats report, and will have more to show soon. 🥳
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### Author:  [@Andy02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andy02)
#### Post date: [Mars 25, 2019, 11:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742/6 "2019-03-25T23:43:58Z")
posting so i can keep an eye on that new feature coming out 🙂
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [Mars 26, 2019, 12:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-monthly-automated-community-report/60742/7 "2019-03-26T00:00:54Z")
We have a [Discourse Yearly Review](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-yearly-review-plugin/105713) that could be used as the basis of a new plugin for creating a monthly report.