boost on this thread -- i totally agree / would love to hear from the community about this!

Hey everyone, so on my admin portal for my nodebb forum, there are a number of analytics, i.e. things like "page visitors" "page views" etc.

While those are a bit more self explanatory, can someone help me out -- I'm not too sure what the other metrics mean:

1. Unique visitors
2. Users
3. Posts
4. Topics
5. Active users, split into "users" and "guests"

All of these have their metric for "day" "week" "month" and "all time" -- it seems that there's no way to check the stats for a certain day in the past, but instead it just calculates the "day" as in "last 24 hours", so it's always changing. If there's a way to extract all these stats and check the stats for a specific day, please let me know!

Anyway so:

For 3+4, my understanding is that a "topic" is a completely new thread while "posts" not only include topics but also comments on each thread, hence the reason the number of "posts" are usually much higher than the number of "topics".

However, from there, the "users" and "active users (i.e. users + guests) metrics are confusing to me -- let me explain:

On any given day, the number of users for the last "day" are like 25-30. But whenever I check the dashboard, the active users are always much higher, like 115-150.

Furthermore, there are always a higher number of "guests" (i.e. anonymous users) then "users" (i.e. registered users) in the "active users" section, which is weird because: our forum is only restricted to our customers -- you can't access the community forum unless you actually have an account with us, which would make you a "registered" user.

Okay -- I know this was a lot but any help is appreciated here. To wrap it up:

1. What constitutes a "guest" and a "user" on nodebb?
2. Why is the "users" metric per day always much lower than "active users"? How is the "users" metric calculated, if not based off of the "active users" per day?
3. What's the difference between "unique visitors" and "users"? For reference, the "unique visitors" per day count we have is usually around 280-300, while once again, our "users" count is usually 25-30.
4. To confirm: a "topic" is a completely new thread while "posts" include not only entirely new threads but also comments on new/old threads, right?

Thank you in advance to anyone that can help with any of these. Cheers!

hi guys! so..i'm not sure if this is the right place to ask or if this question will even make sense (i'm completely new to nodebb..) but:

my company uses nodebb for our community forum and on our forum we have a "view all posts" category/channel (in addition to other ones that we have manually added and such).

while we can remove/edit the other channels, i can't seem to archive or delete the "view all posts" channel. do you know if there's any way to remove this channel? long story short -- i'd rather have the community members be able to choose which channel they want to go into specifically instead of having their "wall" (i.e. view all posts page, which is the homepage) be flooded with posts from certain channels they don't really care about.

additionally, if there isn't a way to delete the "view all posts" channel, is there a way that i can automatically filter posts out -- for instance, if one of the other channels is "say hi!" and there are tons of "say hi!" posts in the "view all posts" channel but i don't want them there, is there a way i can AUTOMATICALLY filter out all the "say hi!" posts from people's feeds, and only have those shown in the "say hi!" channel?

anyway, i hope this all made sense. any help is appreciated!