Hey tapatalk,
For questions 1-4: "top" currently just handles sorting (it sorts the threads based on how many kudos the topic message received), it doesn't do filtering of any kind. How do you expect the threads to be filtered when you say "top topics"?
5. Number of views only apply to messages, not threads. Do you want to increment the number of views on a message?
6. A thread is "read" when all the messages within it are read. You would have to iterate over the messages within the thread and mark them as read.
7. You can just make a restapi call and you will get an error if it is disabled. You can make a call to /restapi/vc which will give you the community node
Hope this helps,
Yuri
