# in Conversation (LIQL Query) from Messages
Hey Khoros Community Gurus, I'm trying to figure out how to get the '# in conversation' number using a LIQL query. I get the other stats, but am not sure about how to calculate the number that is sh...
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I think that number refers to number of unique users participating in the discussion right?
Also: You answered your own question a while ago =): https://community.khoros.com/t5/Developer-Discussion/Message-stats-via-APIv2/m-p/597617
I still don't see a better/more efficient way than getting all message authors in a topic, then loop over all of them and aggregate an array (sequence) of unique authors... pretty terrible performance wise when the topic is long (e.g. a lot of messages to go trough).
