# Information collected in vBulletin but only displayed in Discourse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [December 11, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/information-collected-in-vbulletin-but-only-displayed-in-discourse/927840 "2020-12-11T17:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fotheringay-Phipps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d9b06d/32.png) [@Fotheringay-Phipps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fotheringay-Phipps)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/information-collected-in-vbulletin-but-only-displayed-in-discourse/927840/1 "2020-12-11T17:00:04Z")
One feature of Discourse and not in vBulletin is the number of times someone has clicked on a link in a thread. But if you look at some of the older threads which have links in them, they frequently have numbers of attributed clicks that seem extremely unlikely to have been clicked after the conversion to Discourse. This would suggest that the number shown includes clicks when the site was still in vBulletin format, and that though this information was not displayed in that system, the information was still being collected. Is this correct? And is it also true of anything else? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/information-collected-in-vbulletin-but-only-displayed-in-discourse/927840/2 "2020-12-13T05:19:02Z")
That was visible in vbulletin. I used to watch that number sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/information-collected-in-vbulletin-but-only-displayed-in-discourse/927840/3 "2020-12-19T00:25:48Z")
No, I think **Fotheringay-Phipps** is referring to the click-count for a link, not the view count for a topic. Notably you will see a separate count for unread posts if the link is to a Discourse topic. If you’re looking at that kind of link you might have confused it for the click count. By default the unread post count has a blue background and the click count has a grey background. You can hover over the number itself and see what description comes up. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/information-collected-in-vbulletin-but-only-displayed-in-discourse/927840/4 "2020-12-19T01:14:11Z")
Oh, yeah, i meant how many times a thread had been viewed. Nor how many times an external link within a thread had been clicked. ---
**Author:** ![Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heffalump_and_roo/32/7691_2.png) [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heffalump_and_Roo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/information-collected-in-vbulletin-but-only-displayed-in-discourse/927840/5 "2021-03-08T09:42:50Z")
> [@Fotheringay-Phipps](#): > > Is this correct? And is it also true of anything else? I’m pretty sure it’s true for a lot of information. I don’t remember a lot of the information on the profile summary page in Discourse being shown anywhere on vBulletin. Just pulling a random post from my ‘how much do you read’ thread. Most of these stats are an aggregate from before the transfer. I don’t remember them being displayed on vBulletin and they’re now in the profile page of posters on Discourse. > [@How much do you read the board - according to Discourse? Bragging allowed](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-read-the-board-according-to-discourse-bragging-allowed/933320/13): > > 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 slight_smile