Add automated community metrics section

.github/workflows/update-discourse-data.yml

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           python tools/fetch-news.py
           python tools/fetch-faq.py
+          python tools/fetch-community-metrics.py
 
       - name: Configure Git author
         run: |
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           git add assets/data/news.json
           git add assets/data/faq.json
+          git add assets/data/community-metrics.json
           git commit -m "Update Discourse data data [skip ci]" || echo "No changes to commit"
 
       - name: Push commit

assets/data/community-metrics.json

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+{
+  "generated_at": "2026-02-22T15:31:13.791892+00:00",
+  "github": {
+    "repositories": [
+      {
+        "id": "core",
+        "label": "preCICE core",
+        "full_name": "precice/precice",
+        "url": "https://github.com/precice/precice",
+        "description": "A coupling library and ecosystem for partitioned multi-physics and multi-scale simulations, including surface and volume coupling.",
+        "stars": 887,
+        "forks": 224,
+        "open_issues": 230,
+        "watchers": 35,
+        "contributors": 66,
+        "latest_commit_at": "2026-02-18T13:23:28Z",
+        "latest_release": {
+          "name": "v3.3.1",
+          "tag_name": "v3.3.1",
+          "published_at": "2026-01-14T15:28:58Z",
+          "url": "https://github.com/precice/precice/releases/tag/v3.3.1",
+          "assets_count": 8,
+          "downloads_count": 345
+        }
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "tutorials",
+        "label": "Tutorials",
+        "full_name": "precice/tutorials",
+        "url": "https://github.com/precice/tutorials",
+        "description": "Various tutorial cases for the coupling library preCICE with real solvers. These files are meant to be rendered on precice.org, so don't look at the README files here.",
+        "stars": 131,
+        "forks": 138,
+        "open_issues": 110,
+        "watchers": 10,
+        "contributors": 48,
+        "latest_commit_at": "2026-02-20T20:01:02Z",
+        "latest_release": {
+          "name": "v202404.0 - Now with preCICE v3",
+          "tag_name": "v202404.0",
+          "published_at": "2024-04-16T20:35:04Z",
+          "url": "https://github.com/precice/tutorials/releases/tag/v202404.0",
+          "assets_count": 0,
+          "downloads_count": 0
+        }
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "discourse": {
+    "url": "https://precice.discourse.group",
+    "title": "preCICE Forum on Discourse",
+    "site_creation_date": "2019-09-16T04:29:48.122Z",
+    "users_count": 676,
+    "topics_count": 1163,
+    "posts_count": 8866,
+    "active_users_30_days": 62,
+    "topics_30_days": 18,
+    "posts_30_days": 83
+  }
+}

content/community/community.md

@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Meet the community online, ask questions, and help others at the [preCICE forum
 
 Are you looking for something else? Maybe one of the other [community channels](community-channels.html) is for you.
 
+## Community metrics
+
+The following metrics are updated automatically and provide a quick snapshot of community activity.
+
+<p id="community-metrics-status" class="text-muted">Loading automatically generated metrics...</p>
+<div id="community-metrics"></div>
+
+<script src="js/community-metrics.js"></script>
+
 ## Support preCICE
 
 There are different ways how to support preCICE and get priority support from the preCICE developers in return. [Find out which options](community-support-precice.html).

js/community-metrics.js

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+(function () {
+  var REPO_BLURBS = {
+    core: "Core coupling library and ecosystem.",
+    tutorials: "Ready-to-run tutorial cases for users and developers.",
+  };
+
+  function formatNumber(value) {
+    if (typeof value !== "number") {
+      return "n/a";
+    }
+    return new Intl.NumberFormat("en-US").format(value);
+  }
+
+  function formatDate(value) {
+    if (!value) {
+      return "n/a";
+    }
+
+    var parsed = new Date(value);
+    if (Number.isNaN(parsed.getTime())) {
+      return "n/a";
+    }
+
+    return parsed.toLocaleDateString("en-US", {
+      year: "numeric",
+      month: "short",
+      day: "numeric",
+    });
+  }
+
+  function createMetricItem(label, value) {
+    var item = document.createElement("li");
+    item.innerHTML = "<strong>" + label + ":</strong> " + value;
+    return item;
+  }
+
+  function createSection(title, description, metrics, linkUrl, linkLabel) {
+    var section = document.createElement("section");
+    section.style.marginBottom = "14px";
+
+    var heading = document.createElement("h4");
+    heading.textContent = title;
+    heading.style.marginBottom = "4px";
+    section.appendChild(heading);
+
+    if (description) {
+      var blurb = document.createElement("p");
+      blurb.className = "text-muted";
+      blurb.style.marginBottom = "6px";
+      blurb.style.fontSize = "0.95em";
+      blurb.textContent = description;
+      section.appendChild(blurb);
+    }
+
+    var list = document.createElement("ul");
+    list.className = "list-unstyled";
+    list.style.marginBottom = "6px";
+
+    for (var i = 0; i < metrics.length; i += 1) {
+      var metric = metrics[i];
+      list.appendChild(createMetricItem(metric[0], metric[1]));
+    }
+    section.appendChild(list);
+
+    if (linkUrl && linkLabel) {
+      var paragraph = document.createElement("p");
+      paragraph.className = "no-margin";
+      var link = document.createElement("a");
+      link.href = linkUrl;
+      link.target = "_blank";
+      link.rel = "noopener noreferrer";
+      link.className = "no-external-marker";
+      link.innerHTML = linkLabel + " &nbsp;<i class=\"fas fa-chevron-right\"></i>";
+      paragraph.appendChild(link);
+      section.appendChild(paragraph);
+    }
+
+    return section;
+  }
+
+  function createRepositorySection(repo) {
+    var latestRelease = repo.latest_release;
+    var latestReleaseValue = "n/a";
+    if (latestRelease && latestRelease.url) {
+      latestReleaseValue =
+        "<a href=\"" +
+        latestRelease.url +
+        "\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"no-external-marker\">" +
+        (latestRelease.tag_name || latestRelease.name || "Release") +
+        "</a> (" +
+        formatDate(latestRelease.published_at) +
+        ")";
+    }
+
+    var releaseDownloads = latestRelease ? formatNumber(latestRelease.downloads_count) : "n/a";
+
+    return createSection(
+      repo.label,
+      REPO_BLURBS[repo.id] || "",
+      [
+        ["Stars", formatNumber(repo.stars)],
+        ["Contributors", formatNumber(repo.contributors)],
+        ["Open issues", formatNumber(repo.open_issues)],
+        ["Latest commit", formatDate(repo.latest_commit_at)],
+        ["Latest release", latestReleaseValue],
+        ["Release downloads", releaseDownloads],
+      ],
+      repo.url,
+      "Open repository"
+    );
+  }
+
+  function createDiscourseSection(discourse) {
+    return createSection(
+      "Discourse forum",
+      "Community activity snapshot.",
+      [
+        ["Users", formatNumber(discourse.users_count)],
+        ["Topics", formatNumber(discourse.topics_count)],
+        ["Posts", formatNumber(discourse.posts_count)],
+        ["Active users (30d)", formatNumber(discourse.active_users_30_days)],
+        ["Topics (30d)", formatNumber(discourse.topics_30_days)],
+        ["Posts (30d)", formatNumber(discourse.posts_30_days)],
+      ],
+      discourse.url,
+      "Open forum"
+    );
+  }
+
+  function showError(status, message) {
+    if (status) {
+      status.textContent = message;
+    }
+  }
+
+  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", async function () {
+    var container = document.getElementById("community-metrics");
+    if (!container) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    var status = document.getElementById("community-metrics-status");
+
+    try {
+      var response = await fetch("/assets/data/community-metrics.json");
+      if (!response.ok) {
+        throw new Error("HTTP " + response.status);
+      }
+
+      var metrics = await response.json();
+      var repositories = (metrics.github && metrics.github.repositories) || [];
+      var discourse = metrics.discourse;
+
+      if (!repositories.length || !discourse) {
+        throw new Error("Missing metrics data");
+      }
+
+      container.innerHTML = "";
+      for (var i = 0; i < repositories.length; i += 1) {
+        container.appendChild(createRepositorySection(repositories[i]));
+      }
+      container.appendChild(createDiscourseSection(discourse));
+
+      if (status) {
+        status.textContent =
+          "Automatically generated metrics. Last updated " + formatDate(metrics.generated_at) + ".";
+      }
+    } catch (error) {
+      console.error("Could not load community metrics:", error);
+      showError(
+        status,
+        "Could not load the metrics right now. You can still browse all details on GitHub and in the forum."
+      );
+    }
+  });
+})();