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Hi Paul,

That's indeed a good question!

The attachment feature has been a great addition to the vBulletin, and I think that all statistical information that we can get out of that feature proved to be more and more useful. In analysing users activities for example (see vBExperience also), I have found it important to know, not only which users have posted attachments but, which users have actually viewed which attachments. In much the same as is done on Threads: Which users have posted Threads and which users have actually viewed which Threads. This is much for administrative purposes and strategic re-orientation of a forum content.

In my forums for example, in much the same as done here with mods, I do not allow people to post open html links to "external" documents, but they can paste those links along with descriptions inside attachments files and post those attachments. In this way, I keep track on how many users showed interest in a document, through the attachment views. But, one crutial information is still missing: Who has viewed/downloaded an attachment. I think that forums with a volume traffic on attachments will be very interested in such mods.

Actually, this feature or something similar is used here at vBulletin.org when displaying the vBulletin Add-ons listing. When I browse this page for example, Threads containing mods that I have downloaded are displayed with a prefix "Downloaded".

Still thinking loudly here, the vBulletin 3.7.0 contains a plethora of new features one of which is the "User Picture Galleries". It would be interesting to know "Who has viewed my pictures" (or "The last visitors to my album were:...")for example. I don't know if this has been implemented already.

What are your thoughts on this guys/gals?