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06 · INSIGHTS

Run it like you mean to.

Member growth, engagement pulse, top contributors, category health, mod load — the numbers that tell you whether the community is working, in one dashboard you don't have to assemble.

The numbers that tell you the community is working — without the surveillance.

DASHBOARDLantern Society · last 30 days
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MEMBERS
1,247
+4.2%vs last wk
POSTS / WK
148
+12%vs last wk
REACTIONS / WK
892
+6%vs last wk
MOD QUEUE
3
−2vs last wk
ENGAGEMENT · DAILY ACTIVEComing Q3
30-DAY ROLLING · UPDATED 06:00 UTC
TOP CONTRIBUTORSShipped
  • 01
    Nora LiuTrusted
    18posts
  • 02
    RafaVigil
    14posts
  • 03
    Kim MwangiTrusted
    11posts
  • 04
    Jenny ToroMember
    9posts
  • 05
    HeliaTrusted
    7posts
CATEGORY HEALTHComing Q4
  • #workshop
    42
  • #chapters
    31
  • #critique
    24
  • #off-topic
    9
  • #announcements
    2QUIET 14D+
  • #meta
    0QUIET 14D+
MOD PULSEShipped
3
QUEUE DEPTH
42m
RESP MEDIAN
RECENT MOD ACTIONS
  • Lifted hold on 0142Rafa · 12m ago
  • Pinned weekly digestMarta · 2h ago
  • Edited title (typo)Rafa · 4h ago
  • Shadow-held spam DMMarta · 8h ago
NO PER-MEMBER BEHAVIOUR TRACKING · EXPORTABLE AS CSV/JSON
ANATOMY
  1. 01

    Stat strip

    Shipped

    Members, posts, reactions, mod queue depth — with week-over-week deltas. The top of the dashboard tells you in three seconds whether things are growing, flat, or fading.

  2. 02

    Top contributors

    Shipped

    The members driving the most activity, with role chips + trend arrows. Helps you spot regulars approaching auto-promotion thresholds, and notice when long-time contributors slow down.

  3. 03

    Mod queue depth

    Shipped

    Open review-queue items, oldest unhandled, recent mod actions. The number that tells you whether your moderation team is keeping up — or whether they need help.

  4. 04

    Engagement over time

    Coming Q3

    Daily-active members, posts, comments, reactions on a 30-day rolling window. Trend lines that catch slow declines before they become problems and surface the days that drove spikes.

  5. 05

    Category health

    Coming Q4

    Activity bars per category with "quiet for 14d" warning chips on cold ones. Helps you prune dead channels and double down on the ones that are working without guessing.

  6. 06

    No surveillance

    Shipped

    We don't track members across the open web. No behaviour graphs, no ad networks, no cross-site cookies. The numbers come from forum activity, not from following anyone around.

UNDER THE HOOD
  1. 01Stat strip + contributors + queue depth read live from the forum's database — no aggregation lag for the headline numbers.
  2. 02Historical rollups run on a daily cron at 06:00 UTC; trend lines and week-over-week comparisons come from those.
  3. 03Per-tenant cache (Upstash) busts on writes that affect the numbers, so the dashboard updates within seconds of a member posting or reacting.
  4. 04Export the raw numbers as CSV or JSON if you want to run your own analysis or feed a third-party tool.
  5. 05No member-level tracking pixels, no third-party analytics scripts, no fingerprinting. The dashboard sees what the forum sees — nothing more.
WHAT THIS ISN'T
  • Daily aggregation, not minute-by-minute

    Historical trends roll up once a day. The stat strip and contributors are live; the charts are 24-hour resolution. Most owners don't need finer than that — and the cost of computing it would show up in the price.

  • No per-member behaviour graphs

    You can see a member's post count and reaction count. You can't see what they read, what they hovered on, or how long they spent on a page. That's a deliberate floor — we don't collect what we wouldn't want collected on us.

  • No external analytics integrations yet

    No Mixpanel, no Amplitude, no Segment in V4.1. Export-then-import if you have a stack. A clean integration path is on the V4.2+ horizon.

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