Add Forums Stats in the "Statistics" Section

sportfan999

I understand that the Discussion Forums are supposed to be hidden from the community, but the “Statistics” section is pretty hidden as well. I am suggesting for there to be Forums Stats in the “Statistics”.
Here's a mockup:

Tell me your opinions

List of good ideas:
By @fdreerf
By @pandacorn_owl
By @2546354163521
Edit: Wow. Almost 2 months and this thread is still going strong!

Last edited by sportfan999 (Dec. 28, 2020 01:01:32)

2546354163521

Sounds useful, and it's quite unrealistic that someone who doesn't know the forums knows the stats, they're both close to the legal stuff noone reads. Maybe also log the posts and topics in the last month and the OP/Post ratio?

Last edited by 2546354163521 (Nov. 1, 2020 18:06:39)

sportfan999

2546354163521 wrote:
Sounds useful, and it's quite unrealistic that someone who doesn't know the forums knows the stats, they're both close to the legal stuff noone reads. Maybe also log the posts and topics in the last month and the OP/Post ratio?

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll add them to the OP.

fdreerf

Yes! As an avid lover of graphs and data, more graphs and data is exactly what I want, especially pertaining to the forums! While a lot of those things listed might not get added as it would make the statistics page quite lopsided, these three (Average Daily Posts, Average Daily Users, New Forumers in the Last Month) can just be added to one graph. I suppose somebody who is smart can use the Scratch Forums API to replicate these, for the time being.

sportfan999

fdreerf wrote:
Yes! As an avid lover of graphs and data, more graphs and data is exactly what I want, especially pertaining to the forums! While a lot of those things listed might not get added as it would make the statistics page quite lopsided, these three (Average Daily Posts, Average Daily Users, New Forumers in the Last Month) can just be added to one graph. I suppose somebody who is smart can use the Scratch Forums API to replicate these, for the time being.

Thanks for the support! I added this to the OP.

Last edited by sportfan999 (Nov. 1, 2020 18:23:49)

ShyGamer16

This would be so awesome! I don't usually use the stats but lots of people (like @fdeerf) like to check the stats. I also was surprised the first time I looked at the stats because I didn't know Scratch was that popular.

pavcato

Support! I really think this would be useful for analytics, as we can see how many people know the forums exist, and how many people you can reach with the forums. I think there should be an Average Views/Topics/Post per month/day for each forum.

Last edited by pavcato (Nov. 6, 2020 13:45:22)

-InsanityPlays-

I believe Lefty has a forum API with a few of these, but no official one.

sportfan999

So more people can see this, I'm going to Bring Up My Post!

Ihatr

Yes!
This has been something that I would always want! It would be extremely interesting to see the trends in new users, so I could then shape my schedule to be more active in certain parts of the month, therefore helping more. This is such a good idea, and I'm surprised it hasn't been implemented yet.

sportfan999

Sorry for a BUMP before 24 hours, but this was on the 3rd or 4th page. I think 10 hours will have to do

sportfan999

sportfan999 wrote:
So more people can see this, I'm going to Bring Up My Post!

pandacorn_owl

I think this would be interesting to look atI did discover the Stats and all the legal stuff before the forums. I'm just curious how would New Forumers count be counted would it be as soon as you make your first post?
For daily users, would this also be posting or could it be simply reading and not posting anything.
I feel like by the time you discover the statistics you are inevitable to find the forums soon.
I'm also not to sure about average posts per topic as there will be lots of low post count topics and a couple large post count topics that could make the average quite a strange number. Also, on certain forums topics get longer than others for example TIMAC and TIRAP can have very long converstion meanwhile QaS can have 10 posts on them

lm1996

pandacorn_owl wrote:
I think this would be interesting to look atI did discover the Stats and all the legal stuff before the forums. I'm just curious how would New Forumers count be counted would it be as soon as you make your first post?
For daily users, would this also be posting or could it be simply reading and not posting anything.
I feel like by the time you discover the statistics you are inevitable to find the forums soon.
I'm also not to sure about average posts per topic as there will be lots of low post count topics and a couple large post count topics that could make the average quite a strange number. Also, on certain forums topics get longer than others for example TIMAC and TIRAP can have very long converstion meanwhile QaS can have 10 posts on them

I think that strange number would be quite interesting.

To address the OP, I support, as stated by reasons above.

sportfan999

sportfan999 wrote:
sportfan999 wrote:
So more people can see this, I'm going to Bring Up My Post!

sportfan999

sportfan999 wrote:
sportfan999 wrote:
sportfan999 wrote:
So more people can see this, I'm going to Bring Up My Post!

pandacorn_owl

I think maybe the average posts per topic could have a category for each forum then a category for all.

sportfan999

pandacorn_owl wrote:
I think maybe the average posts per topic could have a category for each forum then a category for all.

What makes you think that?

pandacorn_owl

sportfan999 wrote:
pandacorn_owl wrote:
I think maybe the average posts per topic could have a category for each forum then a category for all.
What makes you think that?

I think it would be more interesting to see all the forums averages since they would be quite different from one another. It would also see were the shortest and longest average conversation.

sportfan999

pandacorn_owl wrote:
sportfan999 wrote:
pandacorn_owl wrote:
I think maybe the average posts per topic could have a category for each forum then a category for all.
What makes you think that?
I think it would be more interesting to see all the forums averages since they would be quite different from one another. It would also see were the shortest and longest average conversation.

Alright. I may add this to the OP

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