If you've ever wondered how much people are using your forum, whether making contributions or just reading the material that is there, it's easy to get an overall feel for this.
In a ProjectForum group, go into the Group Administration pages, and click on "Activity" at the top. This page will let you see a summary of all the activity in the group over a period of time, broken down by number of page views, number of page edits, number of posted comments, and number of downloaded files. If you have the group set up so that people require passwords, you'll also see this breakdown for each user.
Because most people don't use this information, by default collecting activity information is turned off. Turn it on by changing the "Keep activity logs for:" setting and clicking "Save Changes". You probably only want to keep a limited amount of activity (say, the last month). This will both make the statistics more meaningful for recent activity on the forum, and also save collecting possibly large amounts of data which can sometimes slow the system down a bit.
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