#privacy : inform and opt-in about Google tracking

[Fil]

https://github.com/BusterLabs/Partyshare/blob/master/src/static/js/analytics.js

What exactly are you allowing google to track, and for what purposes?

Shouldn't users be informed, and allowed to opt-in tracking if they want to help you do whatever you need this for?

thanks! (very promising app!)

[bhstahl]

Hey @Fil, this was solely to see how people are using Partyshare in order to make it a better product. It's firing events on how users use it, such as copying a share link vs opening it directly.

I do now see how that is a privacy concern, and not the intention of this project. First and foremost it's about being open and secure. I will remove the Google Analytics tracking until we have a opt-in flow for any and all analytics.

Thanks for checking this project out! Would love to hear any other feedback you have.

[Fil]

Thank you! (I'm sorry my message was a bit tone-deaf.)

Your app is great, very nice design, simple to understand and helps leverage the power of IPFS.

Since you've asked, here are a few comments :-)

• I would not personally recommend branding it as "sort of dropbox-like", it's quite different and people who search for a dropbox replacement would not find what they need here. Plus, Dropbox will die at some point, but IPFS won't. (Or so goes the story.) In fact the app reminds me more of a decentralized WeTransfer (but it isn't either).

• It would be great to be able to share a "folder" not only individual files, and to share files with their real names and extensions instead of just a plain hash. (The solution is to wrap the file into a folder, I think.) I'm not sure if it's easy to do with the js API

• The great thing with IPFS is that if you rename a file it's hash doesn't change. However it's unclear in the app what happens if you change the contents of a file (I'm not sure of how the UI could reflect that? — maybe by writing project-(version of [date]).odt instead of project.odt, at least if we detect a change in contents

• Also, when you rename a file, the UI keeps displaying the older name, it could change and track the new name silently.

• Something is missing in the UI: how do you know that your file has been "shared" and you can now safely turn off the internet? I suppose it's hard to do, but knowing that the file is now safely out somewhere on at least 1 remote copy would be great. Also it would be a great for files that happen to be already up there, to see them transferred faster than light, Pied-Piper style.

• If I click on a file name in the menu, nothing happens: I'd like to either see more information (size, %transferred, number of copies "out there"), or just be sent to the file in the Finder.

(I can dispatch these in individual issues if you prefer)