Number of views (activities)

[srenault-meeds]

Rationale

Once an article is viewed, this is considered as a new view to be displayed in the news info (for news list, in the news activity box).

❓Then, What is the problem?
However, this is not possible to have the same info for other activities (posts, kudos, poll).
While this info is suggested in other social networks for readers to engage more users to read infos, users have reported this feedback as a missing feature for our feed.

🎯 What is the goal?
For posts (incl. kudos, polls), have the information of number of times users have seen this post.

1. Functional Requirements

Top User Stories

• Each time a user view an activity (incl. kudos, polls), then this is considered as one view

  • the author is not considered in this number of views
  • If a user sees it multiple times, it still counts for one view
  • If no one has seen yet the post (excl. the author), then no info is shown about the number of views

• This number of views must be related to the existing analytics infos:

  • Operation - Mark as read
  • Technical: eventtype - Read
  • Technical: EntityType - Activity
  • Technical: EntityID - {value}

The operation "Mark all as read" won't be here consider in the views computing as it is not really viewed.

Precision: News activity will be excluded from this information. Indeed, there is already an information about it in the news activity. It would be confusing indeed to bring two different infos.

Impacts

Gamification

N/A

Notifications

N/A

Analytics

N/A

Unified Search

N/A

2. Technical Requirements

Expected Volume & Performance

The activity feed performance must remain unchanged, with no additional visible latency. The display of activities must not be impacted by the addition of the views count information.

Security

The same security model applied to activities is also applied to the activity views count information.

Extensibility

The feature is implemented as an extension exposed through the load group mechanism, allowing each addon to separately control whether the views count is displayed for its activity type.

Configurability

N/A

Upgradability

N/A

3. Software Architecture

Access

This feature adds a new UI element to the activity header, displayed alongside the activity creation date.

Services & processing

• The activity processor verifies whether the viewer Identity IDs are stored in the metadata.
  • If they are present, the cached data is used to compute the number of identities, excluding the activity’s author from the count.
  • If they are absent, the processor sends a request to the analytics module in order to compute the viewer Identity IDs, retrieves the results, and updates the activity metadata accordingly.
• When an activity is marked as read, the viewer Identity IDs metadata is removed asynchronously from the corresponding activity.

Data and persistence

No new tables are needed.

[srenault-meeds]

To check please @Julien-Dubois-eXo @margondicco

[Julien-Dubois-eXo]

@srenault-meeds my feedbacks:

This number of views must be related to an operation from analytics "View Activity"

Is it a new measuring point? I don't find it. If yes, could you please specify more (module, name, and other information linked) the measuring point please? How do you differentiate post in my feed and in a space feed?

the author is not considered in this number of views

For news, the author is included. I'm fine to exclude it but we should aligned the news indicator too.

IMO the icon should be the same as already used for news = the eye. It's more understandable for regular users and it's the same type of information.

[srenault-meeds]

Is it a new measuring point? I don't find it. If yes, could you please specify more (module, name, and other information linked) the measuring point please? How do you differentiate post in my feed and in a space feed?

Yes, it is a new measuring point. Usually, we don't detail this in a MIP. But yes, I will do that if needed

For news, the author is included. I'm fine to exclude it but we should aligned the news indicator too.

It is not expected to update the current implementation of news view as it is not implemented the same way we want. But we'll try.

IMO the icon should be the same as already used for news = the eye. It's more understandable for regular users and it's the same type of information.

I don't like the eye but yes, we will do that.

[Julien-Dubois-eXo]

@srenault-meeds

Yes, it is a new measuring point. Usually, we don't detail this in a MIP. But yes, I will do that if needed

IMO we must always specify the new measuring point as it may have technical impact (new module for instance) on analytics or help to suggest linked information.

[srenault-meeds]

Reviewed

[Julien-Dubois-eXo]

@srenault-meeds

space or personal network

for the location we will have the space ID if it's in a space so we can filter by space but for the personal network to avoid creating a field we could just put nothing as we have discussed for personal note.

So if in a space, we have space id if on personal pages, we have nothing. WDYT?

[srenault-meeds]

no, we already have the attribute for personal network IMO (which is space ID = 0) unless other teams have removed it and I don't know about it.

[Julien-Dubois-eXo]

@srenault-meeds do you mean that

I was not aware of this data. It's interesting thanks.

[srenault-meeds]

No this is not that, this was another one. Anyway, we will take care of it to ensure this is fully understandable

[srenault-meeds]

Hence, waiting for your approval if no more objection
@margondicco @Julien-Dubois-eXo