Gravity Insights: advanced forum statistics & analytics

[gravityinsights]

Gravity Insights real-time forum analytics

UNDERSTAND YOUR FORUM CONTENT AND USERS. MAKE BETTER DECISIONS FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.

Gravity Insights is a real-time forum analytics service. Gravity Insights is the only analytics service designed to help forum administrators understand their content and users and make their sites better. With Insights, you?ll have a detailed understanding of who comes to your site, why they come to your site and how they interact with your content.

Please visit http://insights.gravity.com for more information.


Feature Highlights
Dashboard

Hourly trends for the last 24 hours
Recent stats & trends (pageviews, visitors, new members, new threads, new replies, searches)
Active Threads
Active Users
Trending Topics


Real-time Dashboard

Real-time stream of new threads
Real-time stream of new media



Who's using Gravity Insights

Crackberry
Mothering.com
Poke Community
PBNation
vBSEO
and hundreds more



What people are saying?

Kevin Michaluk, Co-founder Crackberry.com: "Insights does an outstanding job giving us an instant overview of what's happening in real time on the CrackBerry.com forums. There's always a ton of activity and sometimes it's hard to keep up. Gravity Insights not only shows us which threads are the most active, but also gives us an easy way to identify new members who are contributing great content."

Ed Rieker, President of PbNation: "There are a lot of generic analytics services out there. Gravity Insights is NOT one of them. Insights does an amazing job of distilling all the activity in our community into useful information. Monitoring the forum in real-time has also never been easier. Because of Gravity Insights, I now know exactly what's happening on our site. The Gravity team is outstanding, a pleasure to work with and very responsive to our needs. I highly recommend them."

Patrick Clinger, President and CEO, ProBoards, Inc.:"With Gravity Insights I can see what's happening across the millions of ProBoards forums. Gravity Insights is the first analytics service that I've found that includes relevant forum statistics and can scale to meet our heavy traffic volume. As a big analytics user, I continue to be surprised by all the new things I'm discovering with Gravity Insights."



How does Gravity Insights work?
It?s pretty simple. Gravity Insights is a standard vBulletin plugin. Once installed, Gravity Insights puts a lightweight beacon (similar to Google Analytics) on every vBulletin generated webpage. In addition, Gravity Insights has custom hooks that initiate asynchronous server-to-server calls between your vBulletin server and the Gravity Insights servers. These hooks allow Gravity Insights to track all the things that standard analytics software can?t track (like new threads, new replies, new member registrations, etc.).


Requirements to use Gravity Insights
Gravity Insights has been tested with very large and very small forums. You?ll need vBulletin version 3.6 or later to use Gravity Insights. Gravity Insights also supports phpBB, Vanilla Forums, and ProBoards.


Legal stuff?
Gravity Insights is copyright protected by Project Rover, Inc. You?re free to use Gravity Insights (subject to our terms and privacy policy) on any vBulletin forum for which you hold a valid license.


Anything else?
Drop us an email at insights@gravity.com if you have any questions.

If you try Gravity Insights, please click mark as installed and rate the plugin to show your support. And again, let us know what you think ? good or bad! How can we make Gravity Insights better for you?

[relaxiha]

Hello. I registered my name. But does nothing to download! Where to download? Where should I install and being?

[gravityinsights]

Hey Relaxiha - Sign into your account. The first time you sign in it will take you directly to the download page. Let me know if you have any problems.

[relaxiha]

I registered my. But what came to download! Only here can be compiled
http://insights.gravity.com/dashboard

[relaxiha]

i find and installed thanks.
INSTALLATION -----------------------------------

1. Upload the insights directory to your vBulletin webroot. After the upload it should look like: vbulletin_webroot/insights

2. Access your admin panel.
* On the left hand side click on Plugins and Products.
* Click on Manage products.
* Click on Add/Import Product
* Choose to upload the product XML file from your local computer
* Browse to find the product-gravityinsights.xml product file
* Click "IMPORT" button
* It should import properly, once it's uploaded you're done. You
may now log into your insights account (please note it may be a day before your account is fully up and running)

[gravityinsights]

relaxiha - Glad to hear it! I should have mentioned the install instructions are in README.txt which is included with the plug-in downlad.

[HoSStiA]

How to config Thread Mask etc. for forum with vBSEO installed?

[gravityinsights]

HoSStiA - The default thread mask should work fine. vbSEO renames your URLs, but leaves vBulletin's thread structure intact. A quick example using vbseo.com:
*vbSEO thread URL: http://www.vbseo.com/f55/subdomain-41325/
*standard vBulletin thread URL: http://www.vbseo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41325

Both URLs render the same thread. So, the mask would simply be http://www.vbseo.com/forum/showthread.php?t=%thread_id%

I'm happy to check out your site and let you know how to setup the mask. PM me an URL for a random thread.

[Kolbi]

Want to see some screenshot :)

[Ramsesx]

Want to see some screenshot :)
You'll find screenshots on the Gravity site.

Some feedback, install was quick and easy and it's interesting to see the realtime visitors online and stats but I am not really sure if this are at the moment really usefull informations (for me). One bug, if clicking on a thread listed under Today's Most Viewed Conversations there opens a new page but says not input files specified.
Serverload seems normal although this is catching informations on real-time. One question, what's happening if your Gravity site is down for any reasons? Will this result any bad impact to my site?

Thanks for this addon.

[gravityinsights]

You'll find screenshots on the Gravity site.

Some feedback, install was quick and easy and it's interesting to see the realtime visitors online and stats but I am not really sure if this are at the moment really usefull informations (for me). One bug, if clicking on a thread listed under Today's Most Viewed Conversations there opens a new page but says not input files specified.
Serverload seems normal although this is catching informations on real-time. One question, what's happening if your Gravity site is down for any reasons? Will this result any bad impact to my site?

Thanks for this addon.

Ramsesx - Thanks for the feedback!

Regarding the thread bug, clicking the thread should take you to a preview of the thread. If it doesn't work, check that you set up your thread mask properly (in Account Settings -> Manage Sites).

Regarding your question, the Gravity Insights beacon is very light, so you should not notice any latency. If Gravity were ever to go down, we'd simply miss activity on your site during that time. Your site will still load properly and request to our servers will quickly timeout.

[andyv72]

hello...
Need help...

After install:

Warnung: require_once([path]/insights/insights.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code (Zeile 1)

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/web1222/html/insights/insights.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/***/******/html/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 1

:mad::mad:

[Ramsesx]

Have you uploded all files andy, especially the insights.php?

[Greight]

Please post some screenshots.

[raistlinthewiz]

i've installed insights on my 4.0.2 pl1 forums but it brokes the forum layout when i enable it...

check the screenshot:

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3853/insights.jpg

[Storyteller69]

How is the transfer of the user IP addresses handled? Are thereby completely transmitted and evaluated, or they are partially "rendered useless"?

[gravityinsights]

hello...
Need help...

After install:

Warnung: require_once([path]/insights/insights.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(29) : eval()'d code (Zeile 1)

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/web1222/html/insights/insights.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/***/******/html/global.php(29) : eval()'d code on line 1

:mad::mad:

andyv72 - let's connect thru email and i'll help you trouble shoot.

[gravityinsights]

i've installed insights on my 4.0.2 pl1 forums but it brokes the forum layout when i enable it...


raistlinthewiz - thanks for the screenshot. checking it out now! i'll get back to you.

[gravityinsights]

Please post some screenshots.

Added a couple screenshots for you. :) you can also check out our website: http://insights.gravity.com.

[GoldenChaos]

This is great stuff - I've been having some issues with accuracy, but otherwise I'm very impressed and this blows any other forum stats option (especially vBulletin's built-in horror) out of the water.

Kudos, Gravity. :)

[molieman]

Installed a vB 4.0.2. p1

FANTASTIC!!!!! Thank you from a number cruncher :) :) :)

Lost white background color on forum page, after install. :(

[pitt34]

One question and one problem:

How to change timezone in Gravity Insights Dashboard?

I have something like that "czy akap nie jest r�wnia pochy�� do niewolnictwa? " in Today's Most Viewed Conversations in Dashboard.

[gravityinsights]

One question and one problem:

How to change timezone in Gravity Insights Dashboard?

I have something like that "czy akap nie jest r�wnia pochy�� do niewolnictwa? " in Today's Most Viewed Conversations in Dashboard.

We're not supporting multiple time zones for the time being. All times are in Pacific time (UTC -8). Sorry. :(

Regarding the crazy characters, we may be having some character encoding issues. Let me know if you keep seeing things like that.

[gravityinsights]

Installed a vB 4.0.2. p1

FANTASTIC!!!!! Thank you from a number cruncher :) :) :)

Lost white background color on forum page, after install. :(

Thanks!

I think the background color issue is the same as the bad footer error noted by some other users. Workin on it! :)

[dacho]

Thanks
But I did not understand why I need your site to get the Google Analytics data

[Snug]

installed... love it, cant wait to see this in action after a few days of activity :D

[molieman]

Installed a vB 4.0.2. p1
Lost white background color on forum page, after install. :(

Actually effected all my forum pages :(

Would hate to uninstall this beauty, any clue on a fix for this? or why this may of happened?

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ADDITION:

Never mind, I didn't see the above response:o:o:o

[mialutz]

Love love love my gravity insights! Some very awesome information and they guys have been very prompt with assistance when I've needed it. We're running it on a private forum with about 5500 members at this point.

Did I mention I love it!

[lemonadesoda]

^^Private forum? What information is transmitted to Gravity Insights?

If you have Gravity Insights installed, when a user visits your community you transmit traffic information (such as which webpages a user views) and user activity information (such as post content and related metadata). By transmitting this information to us, we are able to enable Gravity Insight's killer features without putting a significant load on your servers.

TBH, I think gravity have done an EXCELLENT job. Looks great, and nice info. But be warned about privacy/confidentiality issues if it is relevant to you.

[pitt34]

We're not supporting multiple time zones for the time being. All times are in Pacific time (UTC -8). Sorry. :(

Regarding the crazy characters, we may be having some character encoding issues. Let me know if you keep seeing things like that.

Are you going to support multiple time zones?

Sorry, I didn't desribe the problem precisely. "Crazy characters" are instead Polish diacritic sings, so you don't support latin-2 encoding.

[pokesph]

works great on our 3.8.x BIG Board.. love the 'insight' this plugin / service provides about our activity, members and so on.

great job and I hope there are even more features added soon.

[Trek]

Tagged, waiting for an update that fixes the forum color issue people have mentioned before I install (I have a dark theme, don't wanna whack it out). =)

Looks interesting though.

One question, what is your privacy policy? Who, what and where do you share our information with?

[Snug]

Ok, found two bugs, had to uninstall

Post a new event in the calender screws up the form, the second is, when ever you select threads to delete/close/etc. it doesnt get recognized and says you did not select valid thread(s)

[septimus]

We have this installed on 4 forums, some of which are VERY large and everything is working great. It's wonderful to be able to get a different way to identify trending threads and important users.

[Snug]

We have this installed on 4 forums, some of which are VERY large and everything is working great. It's wonderful to be able to get a different way to identify trending threads and important users.

even the calendar?

[gravityinsights]

^^Private forum? What information is transmitted to Gravity Insights?

If you have Gravity Insights installed, when a user visits your community you transmit traffic information (such as which webpages a user views) and user activity information (such as post content and related metadata). By transmitting this information to us, we are able to enable Gravity Insight's killer features without putting a significant load on your servers.

TBH, I think gravity have done an EXCELLENT job. Looks great, and nice info. But be warned about privacy/confidentiality issues if it is relevant to you.

Thanks, Lemonadaesoda! Good point. Please read our ToS and Privacy Policy when you sign for an account. Data is transmitted from your site to Gravity Insights!

[gravityinsights]

Tagged, waiting for an update that fixes the forum color issue people have mentioned before I install (I have a dark theme, don't wanna whack it out). =)

Looks interesting though.

One question, what is your privacy policy? Who, what and where do you share our information with?

Thanks Trek. I'll post something when the footer/color issue is resolved.

re: privacy, at a high level, we collect information about how end-users use your forum, and then share that information with you (the forum admin). We also, reserve the right to share information with subsidiaries, service providers, and partners so that we can provide the service to you (the forum admin), and of course we reserve the right to share info to satisfy the law or prevent abuse of the service. That's about it. Take a look at our privacy policy (http://insights.gravity.com/index/privacy) for more details (note: this is written from the perspective of an end-suer).

[gravityinsights]

Thanks
But I did not understand why I need your site to get the Google Analytics data

Hi Dacho,
Gravity Insights is focused on community analytics.

Things Gravity Insights will give you that google will not:

Realtime Stats - online users, searches, daily rollups, etc...
Trending Topics - What are your users really talking about
In the workds - Natural language processing to allow you dive deeper into who your users are
User Segmentation
Realtime Images/New Threads - shows images coming in as they're posted.

There are many more features in the works, we're currently running on some of the largest vbulletin forums on the net.

If you have any questions ping me at insights@gravity.com

thanks

[Trek]

Thanks Trek. I'll post something when the footer/color issue is resolved.

re: privacy, at a high level, we collect information about how end-users use your forum, and then share that information with you (the forum admin). We also, reserve the right to share information with subsidiaries, service providers, and partners so that we can provide the service to you (the forum admin), and of course we reserve the right to share info to satisfy the law or prevent abuse of the service. That's about it. Take a look at our privacy policy (http://insights.gravity.com/index/privacy) for more details (note: this is written from the perspective of an end-suer).

Thanks for the link. I just finished reading through it and have one question.

Measured Data. When you visit a Gravity Insights Site, we also collect Measured Data including clickstream data such as your IP address, browser type, web pages that you have viewed, time of access, searches made on the applicable website, and other statistics, and user generated content such as text, posts, images, and other media that you knowingly contribute.

Does this mean that the entire contents of threads/replies are sent? Including any inline images, etc?

If this is true, thanks but no thanks. =) I'd love to use the service, but I don't see any reason why I'd want threads protected by user permissions groups on my forums to be sent, analyzed and used by anyone else. Data collected for statistical purposes makes sense, but post content and images. Do not, at least to me.

[pete_brady]

(note: this is written from the perspective of an end-suer).

freudian slip?

[gravityinsights]

^^Private forum? What information is transmitted to Gravity Insights?

If you have Gravity Insights installed, when a user visits your community you transmit traffic information (such as which webpages a user views) and user activity information (such as post content and related metadata). By transmitting this information to us, we are able to enable Gravity Insight's killer features without putting a significant load on your servers.

TBH, I think gravity have done an EXCELLENT job. Looks great, and nice info. But be warned about privacy/confidentiality issues if it is relevant to you.



hi lemonadesoda... to address your privacy issue. If you have a private forum you do not wish us to track you can mark it in our config file and we will not log any data for that forum at all. For example some of our largest clients have confidential admin only forums which they mark as private and those stats aren't recorded. If you have a public site, all the information we gather is publicly available already.

thanks,
Jim

[gnatster]

Been using this for a while now. Find it very useful to see what my members are viewing and how I can structure commonly searched items better. The team has been quite responsive in tweaking the product to run better and provide better information.

I'm looking forward to upcoming features as well...

[Trek]

With the ability to exclude forums, I went ahead and installed. Pretty cool so far, only have a small amount of data yet to play with of course so I can't see some of the functionality yet.

Will/is it possible to get some of this data on our forums? I'd like to be able to display what the most active conversations are, etc. Would make perfect forum blocks and CMS widgets.

Also, I'd like to see more integration with vBulletin as far as config options go. I have a large list of forums to exclude, etc. Would be nice if we had (through the AdminCP) a way to select what forums we WANT, or the ones we want to exclude. Whichever is smaller. Much easier to maintain that way.

[gravityinsights]

With the ability to exclude forums, I went ahead and installed. Pretty cool so far, only have a small amount of data yet to play with of course so I can't see some of the functionality yet.

Will/is it possible to get some of this data on our forums? I'd like to be able to display what the most active conversations are, etc. Would make perfect forum blocks and CMS widgets.

Also, I'd like to see more integration with vBulletin as far as config options go. I have a large list of forums to exclude, etc. Would be nice if we had (through the AdminCP) a way to select what forums we WANT, or the ones we want to exclude. Whichever is smaller. Much easier to maintain that way.

hi Trek thanks for the feedback. We're definitely planning on opening up these APIs to forum admins so you can surface this data on your site in the very near future, along with "trending topics" (one of the things we do with the post content).

On the vbulletin admin CP panel integration issue... We run on some of the largest forums on the net (proboards, pbnation.com, etc..) and they're #1 concerns are performance, ease of integration and maintainability. Having the IDs manually entered in the config file allows us to not require any integration with your database or have the need to write to files on disk. When you're dealing with 400+ servers it's alot easier to tweak a file and rsync it over to all without needing to tweak the permissions as well.

thanks,
Jim

[gravityinsights]

Does this mean that the entire contents of threads/replies are sent? Including any inline images, etc?

If this is true, thanks but no thanks. =) I'd love to use the service, but I don't see any reason why I'd want threads protected by user permissions groups on my forums to be sent, analyzed and used by anyone else. Data collected for statistical purposes makes sense, but post content and images do not, at least to me.

Hi Trek, Thanks for the note. Yes, post content and images are sent to Gravity Insights. If you have specific forums you do not wish to track, you can set those forum IDs in your config file and no data will be tracked or transmitted for those forums. Just to be clear, post and image content is not transmitted “anyone else.” It’s transmitted to us so that we can provide advanced features to you that wouldn’t otherwise be possible (like trending topics and the live content / media streams). We’re working on additional functionality now that will provide you a better sense of your users' interests similar to how services like Quantcast provide demographic data. We think that this type of information will be invaluable to forum operators who are trying to monetize their sites and attract new advertisers.

We appreciate your concern and thanks for the feedback.

[Chuta]

Nice add-on!!!
Tagged. :)

[molieman]

Installed a vB 4.0.2. p1

FANTASTIC!!!!! Thank you from a number cruncher :) :) :)

Lost white background color on forum page, after install. :(

Haven't heard anymore updates on this matter. Makes my site look bad.

This has effected the "body_background" and the stylevars for body_background is set correctly. I hate to lose data already collected :( I love it.

Please let me know how close you are in correcting this anomaly?

[pitt34]

Bug on: http://insights.gravity.com/dashboard

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to services_DashboardInfo::setSite() must be an instance of site_Model, instance of stdClass given, called in /var/www/insights/application/default/controllers/DashboardController.php on line 25 and defined in /var/www/insights/application/default/services/DashboardInfo.php on line 48

[pete_brady]

i lose a chunk of my pages too. is it just a case of changing where it hooks into the page?

i have no idea what i'm talking about...

[gravityinsights]

for those having the footer issue PM me and I'll work with you today to get a resolution. I've contacted those who've already submitted the issue and hopefully we'll get it resolved today asap.

If you are having the issue if you could load up the page, view source and copy/paste that into an email to insights@gravity.com it will help me to understand the problem faster.


thanks,
Jim

[pete_brady]

for those having the footer issue PM me and I'll work with you today to get a resolution. I've contacted those who've already submitted the issue and hopefully we'll get it resolved today asap.

If you are having the issue if you could load up the page, view source and copy/paste that into an email to insights@gravity.com it will help me to understand the problem faster.


thanks,
Jim

done.

[raistlinthewiz]

quick fix: edit Insights - Pageview Beacon template and

replace with this:

require_once(DIR . '/insights/insights.php');
set_error_handler('insights_errhandle');
$obj = new InsightsVbulletin($vbulletin);
$output = $obj->getFooterCode($foruminfo, $threadinfo);
$template_hook['footer_links'] .= $output;
restore_error_handler();

[VonDoom]

When i install the plugin i get an http 500 error "
The website cannot display the page

obviously uninstalled for the time being.

[pete_brady]

quick fix: edit Insights - Pageview Beacon template and

replace with this:

require_once(DIR . '/insights/insights.php');
set_error_handler('insights_errhandle');
$obj = new InsightsVbulletin($vbulletin);
$output = $obj->getFooterCode($foruminfo, $threadinfo);
$template_hook['footer_links'] .= $output;
restore_error_handler();

edited the product xml file and that seems to have fixed it.

about to test the official fix now...

[pete_brady]

official fix does the job too

[gravityinsights]

hi all, thanks to raistlinthewiz, Matt and Pete for helping debug the issue. We have the official fix included in this thread now and the download from http://insights.gravity.com has been updated to 1.3.1 as well.

Please let me know if you come across any other issues :)
thanks,
Jim

[molieman]

Works fantastic, thank you for the fix :) :) :)

[gravityinsights]

Works fantastic, thank you for the fix :) :) :)

welcome, thanks for re-installing :)

[VonDoom]

Hmm this isnt breaking my forum anymore but it doesn't seem to be recording any data. Ill gve it a good 36 hours to see what if anything is recorded.

[molieman]

If you installed the updated version, did you put your site_guid in the siteconfig.ini ? Possibly that may be the problem. Just a thought. :)

[VonDoom]

If you installed the updated version, did you put your site_guid in the siteconfig.ini ? Possibly that may be the problem. Just a thought. :)

No i actually downloaded it from the official site after i registered. Was told no file edits are required if downloading from the official site. I appreciate your help though..
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Edit my bad you are correct i quickly downloaded the updated file from vB.org so yup that would be my problem. Off to make a quick edit now. ;) thanks for the tip.
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+1
Exit information: A couple of admins asked if we could track what the last conversation that a user viewed was – especially for guest users.

[molieman]

I find after watching the information displayed on Gravity-Insights web-site, the information gathered not totally accurate, at least not compared to my AWSTATS for the site.

Correct me if I'm wrong, please, the only information collected is from the forum, not the CSS. So all articles read or moving around from home page is not recorded, is this correct? An example is; Yesterday AWSTATS page views indicated 73K, Gravity-Insight shows 9.72K. That's quite a bit off.

I also have Downloads II, PhotoPost, and Classifieds, I don't believe those areas are recorded either.

This could be a complete misunderstanding in my part, perhaps an explanation of exactly each item represents would help.

I don't mind sharing my sites information, but I do want the information to be an accurate representation.

I find the streaming information to be interesting and helpful, but the numbers are critical for me to sell my site for advertising.

[gravityinsights]

hi Matt, you are correct that only the forum data is tracked right now. If there is enough interest we could provide a piece of javascript that could be used on all pages for other pages on the site.

Some of our bigger forums like the separation so they compare how their community is doing vs the rest of the site.

[pitt34]

I reinstalled and nothing has changed.

The same problem:

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to services_DashboardInfo::setSite() must be an instance of site_Model, instance of stdClass given, called in /var/www/insights/application/default/controllers/DashboardController.php on line 25 and defined in /var/www/insights/application/default/services/DashboardInfo.php on line 48

[betts02]

Got this installed from your site so no need for editing any files ? is this correct ?

When i view the dashboard it has "no data found" any reason why this is showing ?

Does this change after say 1 day or have i done something wrong ?

cheers in advance

[gravityinsights]

hi guys, we pushed a new download of the plugin at http://insights.gravity.com
1.4.0 It should address the remaining issues we've been seeing. If you have any other problems feel free to email me directly at: insights@gravity.com
thanks,
Jim

[gravityinsights]

also, I am seeing some data come in without a proper siteguid so please double check your insightsconfig.php or siteconfig.ini files to make sure you have a valid siteguid from insights.gravity.com

thanks
Jim

[VonDoom]

Well after the latest update all my problems have been solved. I love this unique way of tracking our forum specific data. A+ stuff. Wondering if we can switch the stats to operate within our forums Default timezone?

[VonDoom]

the live search stats are an amazing tool. love this

[gravityinsights]

Well after the latest update all my problems have been solved. I love this unique way of tracking our forum specific data. A+ stuff. Wondering if we can switch the stats to operate within our forums Default timezone?

awesome! glad we were able to get it working for you. Currently the times are PST but we do have time zone bases stats scheduled for the future.

let us know if there's any other features you'd value

thanks,
Jim

[gravityinsights]

Got this installed from your site so no need for editing any files ? is this correct ?

When i view the dashboard it has "no data found" any reason why this is showing ?

Does this change after say 1 day or have i done something wrong ?

cheers in advance

Are you still having these issues? Have you verified that your config file has a valid siteguid?
Email me and we can walk through it together if you're still having issues... insights@gravity.com

thanks,
Jim

[betts02]

sorry for the late reply, but all is working great now, must of just needed a day to collect the data ?

cheers

[BlackJacket]

Thanks! Installed.

What about the ability to have other webmasters view the statistics but not be able to edit any information.

For example i have 3 other admins but do not want to give them my login information to the Gravity Insights website. An option for me to grant them access to those stats would be good. :)

[Snug]

how about adding last weeks stats to the charts??

[gravityinsights]

Thanks! Installed.

What about the ability to have other webmasters view the statistics but not be able to edit any information.

For example i have 3 other admins but do not want to give them my login information to the Gravity Insights website. An option for me to grant them access to those stats would be good. :)

that's available :)
PM me to get it set up. The front end hasn't been finished yet but the backend fully supports multiple users on an account.

[gravityinsights]

sorry for the late reply, but all is working great now, must of just needed a day to collect the data ?

cheers

there is a mixture of realtime and daily data that gets processed, depending on how complex it is to run across the data.

[gravityinsights]

how about adding last weeks stats to the charts??

Snug - coming very soon. :) we're working on doing a better job of letting admins look at historical data (last week, last month, etc.).

[doopz]

I'll give it a shot, looks interesting.

[Bodero]

that's available :)
PM me to get it set up. The front end hasn't been finished yet but the backend fully supports multiple users on an account.

PM sent.

Another question - can there be a setting in the config file to exclude either certain usernames, IPs, or user groups?

[gravityinsights]

PM sent.

Another question - can there be a setting in the config file to exclude either certain usernames, IPs, or user groups?

bodero - that's something we're thinking about. would this be to exclude counting you and your moderators from being counted or did you have something else in mind.

[Bodero]

bodero - that's something we're thinking about. would this be to exclude counting you and your moderators from being counted or did you have something else in mind.

That's exactly what I'd like to do (exclude myself).

[gravityinsights]

UPDATE: Users can now add multiple users to their accounts. The new users cannot create or delete existing users, but have full access. We have more fine grained access controls in later versions planned. You can access this by logging into insights and going to My Account -> Manage Users

thanks ,
Jim

[Jabong82]

I have a question. I just installed this and I noticed reading the above that one of the future features are:

"Sub forum analytics: A number of admins have asked for analytics on specific sub-forums."

All my activity for my website occurs in Sub-forums as I use the Forums to divide categories. So basically the site goes Forum->Subforum->Content.

No threads are actually created in forums, only the sub-forums. Does that mean I won't receive any data?

Thank you in advance.

[gravityinsights]

All my activity for my website occurs in Sub-forums as I use the Forums to divide categories. So basically the site goes Forum->Subforum->Content.

No threads are actually created in forums, only the sub-forums. Does that mean I won't receive any data?

Thank you in advance.

Jabong82 - Good question. The answer is NO. You will receive all the data. What people are requesting is that they be able to see stats on individual subforums. For example, right now you can easily see new content creation (new threads, new replies) and activity (thread views) happening anywhere in your forum. What you cannot see today (but which we're working on right now) is the ability to choose a particular sub-forum and just see the data for that sub-forum.

[bigcurt]

I don't think I need this mod for anything; but it LOOKS beautiful and looks like you did a great job.

[ssslippy]

So u copy all post information and resell it? So for those who have any private forums that data is sold. Their policy allows then to data mine your forum and sell everything u post may it be public or private.

So what stops u from selling my content?

[Jabong82]

Jabong82 - Good question. The answer is NO. You will receive all the data. What people are requesting is that they be able to see stats on individual subforums. For example, right now you can easily see new content creation (new threads, new replies) and activity (thread views) happening anywhere in your forum. What you cannot see today (but which we're working on right now) is the ability to choose a particular sub-forum and just see the data for that sub-forum.

Thank you for your response.

I have one question though.

I have other moderators on my site that I would prefer to only be able to view information regarding the forum they moderate. Would this be a possibility in the future? Thank you.

[gravityinsights]

So u copy all post information and resell it? So for those who have any private forums that data is sold. Their policy allows then to data mine your forum and sell everything u post may it be public or private.

So what stops u from selling my content?

We don't resell anything. :) From our terms:

Gravity will not share information collected through and explicitly associated with Your Site with any third parties unless Gravity (i) has Your consent; (ii) concludes that it is required by law or has a good faith belief that access, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of Gravity, its users or the public; or (iii) is providing such information to third parties to carry out tasks on our behalf (e.g., billing or data storage) subject to agreements that oblige those parties to process such information only on Gravity's instructions and in compliance with this Agreement and appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

[gravityinsights]

The Plugin has been updated to version 1.5.0 and is now more stable with some performance enhancements. It is a highly suggested upgrade to increase accuracy and increase speed.

[malas2007]

right now everything is okay, thank you.

[gravityinsights]

Hey all - We've been busy adding new features to Gravity Insights. Some of the latest new features include:

Traffic sources (sites & search terms)
Detailed sub-forum stats
On-site search
User behavior
Historical stats


If you already have a Gravity Insights account, just go to http://insights.gravity.com and log in to see all the updates. As always, we'd love to hear from you with any questions, feedback or feature requests.

Thanks,
The Gravity Insights Team

[Jabong82]

Hey all - We've been busy adding new features to Gravity Insights. Some of the latest new features include:

Traffic sources (sites & search terms)
Detailed sub-forum stats
On-site search
User behavior
Historical stats


If you already have a Gravity Insights account, just go to http://insights.gravity.com and log in to see all the updates. As always, we'd love to hear from you with any questions, feedback or feature requests.

Thanks,
The Gravity Insights Team

Excellent Stats!

I am glad to see sub-forums are ready to go.

One request though for the sub-forum stats.

I notice that the filter for dates is kinda unusual.

For example you have "yesterday", "2 days ago", and then the months/year.

Is there anyway to get "today", "past week", and even a custom date filter?

Thanks in advance.

[TeknoSounds]

Just logged in after awhile of not... and noticed that around 04/07 that all my pageviews and users per day and a couple other stats have been at 0.

[V8Owner]

I have the same problem as well. :(

Mine has been live with gravity for 4 days & it tells me only 2 members and the rest is blank.

[gravityinsights]

hi all, we've released version 1.5.2 of the plugin that should address any lingering issues with pageview tracking. Please download the latest version from here or insights.gravity.com and let us know if you see anymore issues

thanks again
Jim

[rsuplido]

Right now adding a 'Normal' user does nothing. The user will not have access to any of the stats except for 'Users', which I think is a bug.

Anyway, please add support for granting users rights to see the stats for a particular site (if you have multiple sites configured).

Thanks.

[gravityinsights]

FYI we added "User Behaviors" this past week under the "USERS" tab. This will give you information on the percentage of registered users who are creating unique content for your site. A good indicator of a growing community is to see more unique registered users creating content rather than the same people over and over again. Let us know what other metrics you'd like to see in the upcoming versions. :)

[gravityinsights]

I have the same problem as well. :(

Mine has been live with gravity for 4 days & it tells me only 2 members and the rest is blank.


hi Peter, everything starting to look ok on the stats now?

[pete_brady]

Latest version certainly seems to have fixed issues i was having a couple of versions back...

[TeknoSounds]

Everything appears to be looking good now :)

[V8Owner]

hi Peter, everything starting to look ok on the stats now?

Everything is working very well now thank you .

It really does give you some great insights into your own forum.

Looking forward to getting a month of data.

Any chance in the dasboard you can add a "yesterday" column next to the today realtime results. Just to show what happened yesterday.

It is a little confusing being in another time zone in Australia.

Thanks for all your help, very happy :)

[gravityinsights]

Everything is working very well now thank you .

Any chance in the dasboard you can add a "yesterday" column next to the today realtime results. Just to show what happened yesterday.


definitely a great suggestion, we'll roll that into our product plan

thanks for the feedback.
Jim

[TeknoSounds]

Greetings, I noticed an issue with links to threads.

I currently have my forums in another folder besides the site root, however links in insights show from the site root.
i.e. normal link:
http://teknosounds.com/messageboard/showthread.php/20521-DnB-in-Texas

Link from insights (real-time stream, tho all other links will end up doing the same, giving a 404 not found error)
http://teknosounds.com/showthread.php?t=20521

Also for a suggestion based on V8Owner's post, have a user-based setting for timezone offset.

[gravityinsights]

hi TecknoSounds,
we allow the option to configure a "thread mask" in the My Account -> Manage Sites section of insights. I have set this for you just now, but if you were to add another site you can read the help file on thread masks to see how to set this up in the future. Let me know if you have any other issues :)
thanks,
Jim

[rsuplido]

Any update on granting 'Normal Users' access to the stats?

[TeknoSounds]

hi TecknoSounds,
we allow the option to configure a "thread mask" in the My Account -> Manage Sites section of insights. I have set this for you just now, but if you were to add another site you can read the help file on thread masks to see how to set this up in the future. Let me know if you have any other issues :)
thanks,
Jim

Ahh! Thanks sir! Much appreciated :D

[TeknoSounds]

Oh hey, just for sh*ts and giggles, should like compile everyone who's hooked up to you stats as like a global stats from Gravity. Ya know how like gmail lists how much space they're providing everyone?
So not like detailed stats as far as usernames and threadnames n such, but like total pageviews, users online, etc.

Anyway, just a thought for fun :) I think it'd be interesting to see

[Jabong82]

Does Gravity do custom work for hire? Like say if we wanted to display some stats in a different way to better suit our forum?

[puertoblack2003]

I like this concept but i noticed that it pulls info from sections that is private and not viewable to the public...

[TeknoSounds]

Today I noticed there was a user on the Recent Users that is not in my member list.

Why would it be picking that up?

user is lhx123456

[Skyrider]

Just installed, getting the error:

require_once(DIR . '/insights/insights.php'); set_error_handler('insights_errhandle'); $obj = new InsightsVbulletin($vbulletin); $gravity_output = $obj->getFooterCode($GLOBALS['foruminfo'], $GLOBALS['threadinfo']); $GRV_find = ''; $GRV_add_before = "$gravity_output". PHP_EOL; $output = str_replace($GRV_find,$GRV_add_before.$GRV_find, $output); restore_error_handler();

at the top of the forums.

I like this concept but i noticed that it pulls info from sections that is private and not viewable to the public...
Check insightsconfig.php:

<?php
/** array of forum id's that you do not wish to transmit to insights
; they could be your private forums or your admin only forums that you don't wish to track
place one id for each element in the array
EXAMPLE:
$hidden_forums = array(23, 45, 498);
would not send data for categories 23, 45 and 498
*/
$insights_config['hidden_forums'] = array();

[gravityinsights]

Oh hey, just for sh*ts and giggles, should like compile everyone who's hooked up to you stats as like a global stats from Gravity. Ya know how like gmail lists how much space they're providing everyone?
So not like detailed stats as far as usernames and threadnames n such, but like total pageviews, users online, etc.

Anyway, just a thought for fun :) I think it'd be interesting to see

Great idea! We've thought about this in the past, but haven't gotten around to it quite yet. Maybe we'll do it next time we rev the site design.

[Haifaa]

Hi gravityinsights

thank you for providing such services but when I tried to install it the forum page come with the attached warning page.

what is the problem?

(I'm new to manage forums :) ) (the var is 4.0.2) (Arabic forum)

your replay is highly appreciated.

thank you

[MRGTB]

I've just visited a forum were this hack is really slowing things down. I can see in my browser at the bottom stuff loading last and slow from: input.insights.gravity.com

I think others should know this service can slow your whole loading times down.

[TeknoSounds]

Right...there was a time when the gravity website was down and it was taking forever for my site to load on a refresh.

[gravityinsights]

Hey all - Please PM me if you are experiencing any latency with your site. This is very important to us and I want to get to the bottom of any issues.

Thanks!

[Trek]

Apparently the site is down as when anyone was making a reply to any thread, it would time out and throw DB errors as well as a script error in insite.php (if I remember the file correctly off the top of my head).

Disabling this mod, solved the problem. So basically it appears that when the logging server can't be contacted, it takes down you website... not good. Anyway, as I said, disabled it, all is working fine now.

[x626xblack]

Today I noticed there was a user on the Recent Users that is not in my member list.

Why would it be picking that up?

user is lhx123456
That happens when a user registers and is in between registering and and activating with the activation email. Go to user ACP> User groups and you should see him /her listed as users awaiting email confirmation.

[gravityinsights]

Apparently the site is down as when anyone was making a reply to any thread, it would time out and throw DB errors as well as a script error in insite.php (if I remember the file correctly off the top of my head).

Disabling this mod, solved the problem. So basically it appears that when the logging server can't be contacted, it takes down you website... not good. Anyway, as I said, disabled it, all is working fine now.

thanks for the report Trek, we have been moving data centers to upgrade our potential capacity, and we experienced a network routing issue with several of our web boxes. This issue should be resolved on the gravity side and we're going to be rolling out a new plugin with better timeout support to detect and disable itself if this were to happen again.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

thanks,
Jim

[cfish]

This mod invalidates the XHTML doctype when checked at W3C. It's a shame because vB4 actually validates without this mod. The opening <script> tag does not contain the mandatory "type" attribute. It should be written as:

<script type="text/javascript">

Please action this because it's an easy thing to do and it will endear you to the Standardistas out there. ;)

Those of you who would like to correct this problem now, do the following:

1. Open insights.php in a text editor
2. On line 119, find: $output="<script>
3. Replace with: $output="<script type=\"text/javascript\">
4. Save the file and upload to /forum/insights/, overwriting the previous version.

[dwkmi]

How is this better than Google Analytics?

[gravityinsights]

Thanks cfish for catching that one.

We changed that tag to be W3C compliant. The fix will be available in the next release.

Apologies to the Standardistas.

[cfish]

I'm really loving Insights - gives a great real-time overview of forum activity. The one thing I'd like to add is the ability to set your timezone so that the activity graph on the dashboard shows local time and corresponds to your own timezone setting on the forum.

[gravityinsights]

cfish - We hear you. It's on our roadmap. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[cfish]

OK, here's another request for the roadmap. The "New Members" statistic is potentially very useful for informing forum admins and mods of potential spam attacks. A sudden rise in registrations is a good indicator. Curently, this statistic is only available for today. It would be great to see this on a graph that showed the last 30 days. Or at the very least, to be able to compare today/yesterday as you can with visitors/pageviews etc.

[cfish]

Sorry, ignore my last post. I just found the "New Member Signups" under the "Traffic" tab. A little misleading but it's there none the less.

[civilwartalk]

Gravity,

This is a great utility/service you are providing, I'm really impressed with the information I'm getting.

I have question, this is a free plug-in, and you are giving forum owners a free service, and you claim that you aren't giving any third parties information without our consent, so how are you covering your expenses? Surely you wouldn't be spending lots of money developing this service for forums without some type of revenue generation, would you?

Sorry, but I'm just a little concerned about continuing use with your product, even though I really like it a lot....

[baghdad4ever]

thanks installed

but we have problem with arabic username

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=120810&stc=1&d=1281782073




2- is there any server load issue with this ?



thanks

[civilwartalk]

Gravity,

This is a great utility/service you are providing, I'm really impressed with the information I'm getting.

I have question, this is a free plug-in, and you are giving forum owners a free service, and you claim that you aren't giving any third parties information without our consent, so how are you covering your expenses? Surely you wouldn't be spending lots of money developing this service for forums without some type of revenue generation, would you?

Sorry, but I'm just a little concerned about continuing use with your product, even though I really like it a lot....

Nevermind, now I get it!

[kall]

What's happened to the Switch Sites option on insights.gravity.com?

[gravityinsights]

What's happened to the Switch Sites option on insights.gravity.com?

You should be able to switch sites just below the top menu bar on the right hand side. Note that the option only appears if you are managing multiple sites. If you want to add a second site, you can go to settings > manage accounts and add additional sites to manage. If you're not seeing the link you can send an email to insights@gravity.com with your site URL/name and we'll look into it.

[gravityinsights]

thanks installed

but we have problem with arabic username

is there any server load issue with this ?

re: arabic language, we'll look into it. I think we're supporting arabic language elsewhere so it may be a minor fix.

re: server load. No. We've battle tested Gravity Insights with large and small forums. Our web beacons are strategically placed so that web page content will always load quickly and communication between our web servers and yours is done asynchronously to minimize impact.

[kall]

You should be able to switch sites just below the top menu bar on the right hand side. Note that the option only appears if you are managing multiple sites. If you want to add a second site, you can go to settings > manage accounts and add additional sites to manage. If you're not seeing the link you can send an email to insights@gravity.com with your site URL/name and we'll look into it.
Yeah.. I should be seeing it. It was always there, but at some point since y'all announced the Premium service and things changed, it disappeared.

Others are having the issue, I saw a few-day-old post on your support forums asking the same thing.

Email sent.

*edit* Going to Settings > Manage Sites first is a bit quicker than going to Manage Account then Manage Sites..

[gravityinsights]

Yeah.. I should be seeing it. It was always there, but at some point since y'all announced the Premium service and things changed, it disappeared.

Others are having the issue, I saw a few-day-old post on your support forums asking the same thing.

Email sent.

*edit* Going to Settings > Manage Sites first is a bit quicker than going to Manage Account then Manage Sites..

The bug should now be fixed! Let us know if you're still having issues.

[Skyrider]

Honestly, I've temp disabled this plugin. Getting multiple reports that within FireFox & Chrome typing messages are getting very slow, and I noticed this myself as well..

Within quick replies & editing messages.. When typing messages, you type much faster than the letters/numbers come on the screen.. Only happens when the browser is experiencing a huge lag. After disabling the plugin, it was all solved.

[lapiervb]

Looks good but why hasnt it been updated since April? Does it work with the several vbulletin updates since April. Also I see its $99 is it worth paying for the premium version?

[MikesSite]

I received this hack / service when I purchased vBSEO and a few weeks later I had to disable it. My forum has been running extremely slow since installing insights and my traffic has suffered drastically because of it. I disabled the hack and it seems better. It's a shame because this is a very nice addition to any forum, but it certainly seemed to slow down mine to the point of disabling.

FYI - I'm on a dedicated server too.

[S3Ponline]

That’s interesting.

Are you on 4.1pl2?

[COBRAws]

I received this hack / service when I purchased vBSEO and a few weeks later I had to disable it. My forum has been running extremely slow since installing insights and my traffic has suffered drastically because of it. I disabled the hack and it seems better. It's a shame because this is a very nice addition to any forum, but it certainly seemed to slow down mine to the point of disabling.

FYI - I'm on a dedicated server too.
Same here. BigBoard with quite a few servers running for diff services, yet Gravity Insights was slowing my forums! And support is terrible, I waited 1 week until I got a reply. I am a vbseo customer.

Great tool but I cant afford losing visitors.

[MikesSite]

That?s interesting.

Are you on 4.1pl2?

3.8.6 PL1

Same here. BigBoard with quite a few servers running for diff services, yet Gravity Insights was slowing my forums! And support is terrible, I waited 1 week until I got a reply. I am a vbseo customer.

Great tool but I cant afford losing visitors.

Sorry to hear, unfortunately I'm in the same boat as you. The tool is very useful, but certainly no where near the loss of traffic. My traffic suffered a lot, in fact almost 10K less visitors in under a month.

[LbR]

Warning: require_once([path]/insights/insights.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/functions.php(6989) : eval()'d code on line 59

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/admin/domains/emonx.com/public_html/forums/insights/insights.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/admin/domains/emonx.com/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php(6989) : eval()'d code on line 59

[BadgerDog]

Have the developers given up on this one? :confused:

Why would anyone use this instead of Google Analytical which is free and provides a lot more information about the site, then does their $99 version?

Regards,
Doug

[Sforums]

Horrible, fatal error on 4.1 pl2....

[tjh4384]

Great stuff! Thanks for this, at some point as we continue to grow, will definitely look to the
"upgraded" version of this

One thing you might want to BOLD in the install instructions is the importance of uploading
the FOLDER(Directory) and not just files to the root

Because just uploading files will result in forum urls displaying a blank page
(I know that from experience :-P )

Anyhow thanks for great software!

[Sushubh]

anyone here facing a disappearing header with this plugin today?

[gsmlover4u]

i disable it today because of whole forum blank with it
vb 4.1.1 so i disable it now forum working fine

[gosborne]

anyone here facing a disappearing header with this plugin today?

i disable it today because of whole forum blank with it
vb 4.1.1 so i disable it now forum working fine

Yep me too. disabled. A bit shoddy

[Dirt Bike Addict]

i disable it today because of whole forum blank with it
vb 4.1.1 so i disable it now forum working fine
Yup same here, took me about an hour to figure it out. :mad:

[SouthEastSxS]

Wow, just had same problem, disabled it and all is well. Holly cow, way to bring down whole site!

[cfish]

Ditto here - what a disaster!

[Sushubh]

i have informed the developers about this problem.

[Sushubh]

We were rolling out some new features and it appears there were some issues with certain forum versions. We reverted the code and are looking into it now. In the meantime, you should have no further problems, but please let us know if we can be of any more assistance.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience you have had with the plugin today. We truly appreciate you using Insights and for bringing this issue to our attention so quickly!

an update from the developers of this plugin.

[thecore762]

This is making my website loading slow.
I have the premium version.

www.47r-squad.com

I disabled for now.

[gravityinsights]

Hello,

We just emailed a response to you directly to discuss this further. Currently, you do not have the Insights plugin installed. Could you please install/enable it so we can address your concern?

Thanks you,
Gravity Insights Support

insights@gravity.com

[alfanexus]

Please consider supporting blogs!

[gravityinsights]

Please consider supporting blogs!

Hello Alfanexus,

At this time, we do not have a plugin for blogs. Should this change, we will definitely notify VBULLETIN customers.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to email us at insights@gravity.com.

Thanks!

[torcidas]

I can't register on gravity interest web page to download .ini file....

[gravityinsights]

At 12:00 AM Pacific time on April 28th, 2012, Gravity Insights will be permanently shut down and you will no longer be able to log in to the service to view your forum analytics.

Prior to shutdown, you should remove the Gravity Insights plugin from your website. You can find step-by-step instructions for uninstalling the plugin on our support site:
http://support.insights.gravity.com/index.php?p=/discussion/131/gravity-insights-permanently-shut-down-as-of-april-28th-2012

If you have any questions, please send us an email to insights@gravity.com.

Thank you,
The Gravity Insights Team

[Pandemikk]

Oh no... Now what will we do for forum analytics? :D ;)

On a serious note, why is GI shutting down?

[cfish]

I know this is a (mainly) free service and you have every right to close down but it would only be common curtesy to give a brief explanation.

[Gemma]

At 12:00 AM Pacific time on April 28th, 2012, Gravity Insights will be permanently shut down and you will no longer be able to log in to the service to view your forum analytics.

Prior to shutdown, you should remove the Gravity Insights plugin from your website. You can find step-by-step instructions for uninstalling the plugin on our support site:
http://support.insights.gravity.com/index.php?p=/discussion/131/gravity-insights-permanently-shut-down-as-of-april-28th-2012

If you have any questions, please send us an email to insights@gravity.com.

Thank you,
The Gravity Insights Team

Got the email this morning. Thanks for the info and for providing a very good product :)

[Mukashi]

Will there be any way for users of Gravity Insights to download all of their data before the service goes offline?

[Christos Teriakis]

On a serious note, why is GI shutting down?

Because the Golden Age for web software has dropped down. I can list dozens of proofs, but here are some:

How many promotion emails are you getting for special discounted price for PHP scripts? I don't know if everybody gets them, or just me as I've bought many of them, so I'm on their newsletter lists. But even if you're not getting such emails, just go to Hotscripts.com and try to visit some commercial sites. You can find discounts up to 75%.
Talking for Hotscripts. They had a strict rule. You can't post the same script in another category. Now you can. Just pay and you can do almost everything. I asked them if I can post a paid listing for a script which is not ready yet, and they said "Yes, you can".
Talking for vBulletin. I'll not try to give statistics, as they'll ban me from here. Just count how many superior vB coders have adopted coding at all, how many adopted vB to work for another platform and you'll get my meaning. Does any old member remembers how many online users had vbadvanced.com? Try to check it now.Chris

[Alan_SP]

Oh no... Now what will we do for forum analytics? :D ;)

Yes, I'm too more and more starting to look to your mod. :) And I hope it'll be much, much better than anything seen so far for vB.

[Pandemikk]

Because the Golden Age for web software has dropped down. I can list dozens of proofs, but here are some:
How many promotion emails are you getting for special discounted price for PHP scripts? I don't know if everybody gets them, or just me as I've bought many of them, so I'm on their newsletter lists. But even if you're not getting such emails, just go to Hotscripts.com and try to visit some commercial sites. You can find discounts up to 75%.
Talking for Hotscripts. They had a strict rule. You can't post the same script in another category. Now you can. Just pay and you can do almost everything. I asked them if I can post a paid listing for a script which is not ready yet, and they said "Yes, you can".
Talking for vBulletin. I'll not try to give statistics, as they'll ban me from here. Just count how many superior vB coders have adopted coding at all, how many adopted vB to work for another platform and you'll get my meaning. Does any old member remembers how many online users had vbadvanced.com? Try to check it now.Chris

That's definitely an issue due to your purchases. I only get emails about politicians and their scandals :D. But I see your point.
They want your moniez.
I'm not quite sure if that's a sign that the "Golden Age" has ended for web development or that vB's "Golden Age" was forcibly ended because of... Vinegar ;).

[persianpros]

Why this mod is not in graveyard yet ?

[Bastien]

Holy shit, I thought this hack could be perfect, but it can't work anymore ... is there no solution to use it ?

Does someone know an other good statistics mod ?