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Package cadence
Short Description Cadence — see a member's rhythm, not just their volume. An activity map on every profile, with the day you click actually opening that day.
License MIT
Homepage https://github.com/ernestdefoe/cadence
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Cadence
See a member's rhythm, not just their volume.
An activity map on every profile — and, if you want it, a compact trace beside every post and on user cards.
Press any square and it tells you what happened that day: 2 things on September 7, 2026 — 1 discussion started · 1 reply.
On a phone the map scrolls sideways inside the profile card, and it opens on the newest weeks:
Why not just copy GitHub's graph
Because GitHub's has six problems, and on a forum they matter more than they do on a code host.
- It counts one undifferentiated thing. Cadence separates discussions, replies, likes, reactions and best answers, and only offers the kinds a member actually has.
- Its scale is relative to each person's own busiest day, so someone with two posts all year and someone with two hundred produce similar-looking graphs. Cadence uses an absolute scale with a legend that states real numbers, so two profiles can be compared.
- It shows a fixed year. Someone who joined last month gets eleven months of grey, which reads as "inactive" when the truth is "new". Cadence starts at the join date.
- Colour is the only encoding. Cadence's levels differ in lightness as well as hue, and every square carries its real numbers for screen readers.
- It's decoration. Cadence's squares are buttons: press one and it tells you what happened that day.
- It can't tell you when someone is around. Cadence stores hourly, so a day is the reader's day rather than the server's.
Where it shows
| Placement | Default |
|---|---|
| The full map on member profiles | On |
| A 26-week sparkline beside every post | Off |
| A sparkline on user cards | Off |
🚨 The sparklines cost no extra requests. They read an attribute that rides along on the user the page had already loaded. A placement that appears once per post cannot fetch its own data — thirty posts would be thirty requests, which is how a shared host runs out of database connections and returns 500 for the whole forum rather than for the decoration that caused it.
Settings
Admin → Cadence:
Installation
That last command is worth running once. Cadence maintains its counts from events as they happen, so on a forum with existing history it starts empty until you rebuild — and a map that tells every member they have never done anything is worse than no map.
Rebuilds the posts and likes buckets from your forum's own tables. Safe to re-run.
Only activity a guest could see is counted — or, on a forum guests cannot open, activity an ordinary member could see. Posts in staff-only tags, private discussions and direct messages never reach a map, because the map is one set of counts shown to everyone who can open the profile. Change who can see a tag and run this again, so activity already counted follows the new permissions.
🚨 Reactions and best answers cannot be rebuilt — neither records when it happened, so those two accumulate from the day you install rather than backfilling. Posts and likes rebuild exactly.
Works alongside Calendar
ernestdefoe/calendar has a profile heatmap of its own. When Cadence is
installed and showing on profiles, Calendar stands its own one down, so nobody
ends up with two. Turn Cadence's profile placement off and Calendar's comes back.
How it stays cheap
Activity is rolled up into one row per member, per hour, per kind. A profile
view is an indexed range scan over that member's own rows — it never aggregates
over posts, which on a forum of any size is a table scan per profile visit.
Hourly rather than daily is what lets the day boundary be decided when the map is read, in the reader's timezone, instead of being baked into the data forever at the server's.
Requirements
- Flarum 2.0
- PHP 8.3+
Support
- Support forum: Cadence on ernestdefoe.online
- Flarum community: Cadence on discuss.flarum.org
- Bug reports: GitHub issues
Licence
MIT.
