* FIX: participating users statistics...
... was (mis-)counting
- bots
- anonymous users
- suspended users
There's now a "valid_users" function that holds the AR query for valid users and which is used in all "users", "active_users", and "participating_users" queries.
Internal ref - t/138435
The user directory (`/u`) excludes inactive and silenced users from the list, so for the sake parity, it makes sense to also exclude those users from the /about page stats.
Internal topic: t/70928.
This commit implements 2 new metrics/stats in the /about page for the _estimated_ numbers of unique visitors from the EU and the rest of the world. This new feature is currently off by default, but it can be enabled by turning on the hidden `display_eu_visitor_stats` site settings via the rails console.
There are a number of assumptions that we're making here in order to estimate the number of unique visitors, specifically:
1. we're assuming that the average of page views per anonymous visitor is similar to the average number of page views that a logged-in visitor makes, and
2. we're assuming that the ratio of logged in visitors from the EU is similar to the ratio of anonymous visitors from the EU
Discourse keeps track of the number of both logged-in and anonymous page views, and also the number of unique logged-in visitors and where they're from. So with those numbers and the assumptions above, we can estimate the number of unique anonymous visitors from the EU and the rest of the world.
Internal topic: t/128480.
Adds a new statistics (hidden from the UI, but available via the API) that tracks daily participating users.
A user is considered as "participating" if they have
- Reacted to a post
- Replied to a topic
- Created a new topic
- Created a new PM
- Sent a chat message
- Reacted to a chat message
Internal ref - t/131013
Régis Hanol
Osama Sayegh