Nah not like that. No need for private messaging at all.
Have you seen how Ipboard features users at the bottom of a forum? And some of them have “most users ever online was”. I want something like that.
Basically to show off how many users my forum have. It’s a mental thing. To create awareness that theres a certain number of people involved in this forum that each person uses.
This is the closest plugin that I’m aware of:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/members-online/
I don’t think it displays a total number of registered users though…
Like this Jeep Forum , at the very bottom it says, “Threads: 1,148,850, Posts: 13,982,721, Jeepers: 410,279” . I would like to have something similar.
bbPress comes with a widget for that: “(bbPress) Statistics”. You can display it a widget area in your theme and it displays the following: Registered Users, Forums, Topics, Replies, Topic Tags, Empty Topic Tags.