I mod a few communities here and I was wondering if there were any kind of analytical tools available to track engagement, post frequency, comment frequency, trends, etc.

I scrolled through the last year’s worth of posts here and I didn’t find anything along those lines. A search engine did not provide anything but maybe I’m using the wrong terms.

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOP
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      8 days ago

      Oh my. That is sexy.

      I looked up three of my communities. First thing I noticed is the difference in visualization where one has an entirely different graph type than another. Is that some sort of artifact based on activity?

      What happened in January that stopped data collection? Can that data be recovered and filled in?

      Is there a way to get the activity going back years? This is the main thing I’m looking for.

      • FlordaMan@lemmy.world
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        8 days ago

        Thank you!

        The graph is the same, the differences you see is based on the data gathered. The timescale of the graph is different based ln the first and last post/comment in the database.

        I broke something and didn’t have time to fix it. I added a backfill, which fills in about 1 day each day, so in about a month the gap should be filled.

        Not currently unfortunately. My tiny server wouldn’t be able to store that much data. And I don’t want to abuse the lemmy API by scraping everything.

        • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOP
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          8 days ago

          Thank you for your efforts. And prompt reply.

          It would be nice if there was an API you could click into that was able to handle the flow without being abusive.

          It would be nice if you could break out posts versus comments in that chart. And if it had enumeration available on the y-axis so we knew how many were actually being represented.

          As a stretch goal, it would be nice if it told us how many of the posts were made by moderators versus members versus random interactions.

          • FlordaMan@lemmy.world
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            8 days ago

            I would also love to have a better API. I have even been thinking about hosting my own lemmy instance to get more info. But that’s unfortunately to much data for my little hetzner VPS.

            It is already split, with the green line being posts and blue comments. If you click on a point on phone or hover on a PC/laptop you should see data about the amount of posts and comments. I can see if I can make it more clear.

            Mmm… good one, would mean I would need to fetch some more data. Will look into that!

  • asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
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    8 days ago

    I do not know of any. But you could make one for whatever reason.

    Depending on how you want to do it and for how long, you can choose between a bot, hosting your own instance and analyzing the database and a simple ActivityPub software that is specifically designed to track ActivityPub Group activities.

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOP
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      8 days ago

      I have a lot on my plate already. An existing option with a learning curve would be way better than rolling my own.

      If I read things correctly activitypub is more for new information. I’m looking for historical data like the last three years of a community’s activity.