[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]

Originally Posted by 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.

even the calendar?

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by dacho

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 [email protected]

thanks

[Trek]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

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 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]

Originally Posted by gravityinsights

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

freudian slip?

[gravityinsights]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by Trek

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.