Can users see Forum stats?

[teellbee]

Is there a way (easy way) to see iNat Forum stats by month?

[anon83178471]

… We have stats?

[dianastuder]

We do?
Or what did you want to see?

I would rather know - how many people have looked at this obs before me? And given up in silent (still in Unknown) despair.

[astra_the_dragon]

indeed, there are stats! many of them can be viewed by looking at a user’s profile page.

https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/astra_the_dragon

https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/teellbee

[astra_the_dragon]

if you click on a user’s icon / name, that will open a mini window about them – if you then click on that person’s name within the window, you can see their user page.

alternatively, directly opening the link into a new tab works (I mousewheel-click on an icon or name).

[anon83178471]

I see now. I knew what we were referencing too but I somehow managed to never learn that they are called “stats”, despite it saying “stats” above the data.

This discovery came with a haunting omen:

It feels like “666 days and this dumb-dumb didn’t know these were called ‘stats’”.

[tiwane]

(moved to Forum Feedback)

[dianastuder]

Man with a heart of gold. Don’t sell yourself short!

[teellbee]

Thank you,. I knew about the user stats.

I should have said forum usage stats. Meaning overall usage by month.

e.G., the old Yahoo Groups showed how many posts were made by month. One group I belonged to had a definite seasonal variation.

[dianastuder]

For the seasonal trend across the Forum, you’d have to ask @tiwane.
He will have access to that as admin.

[tiwane]

A quick search in site Settings doesn’t seem to show any way for usage stats to be made public. Perhaps the functionality is there somewhere. Looking at the last year, there’s a slight dip for users and pageviews in December but otherwise no real trend.