How much do you read the board - according to Discourse? Bragging allowed

One of the philosophies of Discourse is that reading the forum is important to the health of the community. If people only posted and didn’t read, there probably wouldn’t be as much activity overall.

One of the metrics that Discourse logs is how much you read the board. To find this, go to your icon in the top right corner, hit the icon that looks like a person on the top right of that menu, then select summary. On that menu, you’ll see your read time stats.

Mine says

12d read time
4d recent read time
2.5k topics viewed
40.4k posts read

While I’m not exactly sure how this is calculated, it looks like an interesting metric.

Your turn. How many posts have you read? (people can see your choice)

Feel free to brag. . . or not.

Now when people say they’re lurking, you can see if they really were.

169K posts read, 3.3K days visited. Holy crap.

• 995 days visited

• 11d read time

• 3d recent read time

• 3.1k topics viewed

• 77.1k posts read

I’m pretty confident I haven’t actually read 77,000 posts.

38.9K posts read. That can’t be right.

Also 93 topics created. Definitely not right.

• 2.5k days visited

• 13d read time

• 4d recent read time

• 9.6k topics viewed

• 112k posts read

Yeah I’m curious about that counter. Says here I’ve read 96.0k posts in 10 days’ reading time.

custom user title checks out

6.7k days visited
26d read time
5d recent read time
39.9k topics viewed
164k posts read
1.6k topics created
88.8k posts created

An hour here. A decade there. It adds up.

A decade or two. But who’s counting?

1.2k days visited
6d read time
4d recent read time
3.3k topics viewed
34.4k posts read
50 topics created
6.3k posts created

I can barely remember any topics I created, I’m surprised it’s more than half a dozen.

• 17d read time

• 4d recent read time

• 9.6k topics viewed

• 85.2k posts read

…I may need to re-evaluate how I spend my time.

If people ever ask me how I spent my time during the lockdown, I will point them to the post I wrote earlier today in which I spent eight paragraphs discussing the meanings and connotations of a single word.

3.6k days visited
18d read time
4d recent read time
15.9k topics viewed
111k posts read
517 topics created
32.1k posts created
Tagged over 1000 threads

114K posts read.

I actually thought it would be higher.

2.2k days visited
25d read time
5d recent read time
6.5k topics viewed
91.0k posts read
35 topics created
6.0k posts created

Just shy of being in the top category

41.8K read (3 of them were really good).
18.3 created.
4.9K days visited.
1 bookmark. Wonder what that was.

It looks like I should have added finer gradations between 50k and 100k, but I had no idea how this was going to go.

Which ones were they? /s

You can check it out by hitting the bookmark looking icon which is two icons over to the left of the person looking icon that you hit to check the stats. Or maybe it’s best not to know.

• 2.7k days visited
• 17d read time
• 3d recent read time
• 27.0k topics viewed
• 139k posts read

That’s what it says, but I don’t recall reading any of those posts.

You’re still in the lead! . . . of the people who posted in the thread so far.

I think it must be including activity from the old board; 3300 days is just over 9 years, and we’ve only had Discourse for, what, 8 months?