I'd like to be able to search on the following:

1. Users who've registered but never logged in, within a given date range (say all users registered prior to XYX date).

2. Users who've registered, but were only seen once.

3. Users who haven't been seen since a given date.

Then I'd like to purge the user base along the same lines. And I wonder how many users would such a search reveal in the first two categories here?

Large user registration numbers are nice, but I don't need mine inflated by ghosts.

You can determine users who have never logged in and haven't been seen since a certain date by entering some date ('yyyy/mm/dd' format) on the Date Registered and Last Logon fields on the search page. Unfortunately, this won't bring up users who have _never_ logged in, but you might be able to get around this by setting the user_last_logon column to not null - it shouldn't break anything to do so. Unfortunately, there is a small bug in this search - if you open up admin/GForum/HTML/User.pm, and look for the second occurance of user_registered-opt, it needs to be changed to user_payment_expiry-opt.

Unfortunately, Gossamer Forum has no way to get this data - it only knows the registered date, the last login, and the last seen time, but doesn't know how many times the user has logged in.

Simply perform a search with Last Login containing something like: '2002/7/1' and the dropdown set to "Before" to search for anyone who hasn't logged in since July 1st, 2002.

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Jason Rhinelander
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jason@gossamer-threads.com