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FRIENDS#UNHOSTED - Own your network!
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Opt in tracking #25

Open johlrogge opened 11 years ago

johlrogge commented 11 years ago

I am really curious to know how many are actually using F#Un. I would not want to force users to be tracked but it would be nice if users would allow some statistics to be gathered. What if the users were presented with a question upon login (once only)

"Thanks for using friends unhosted. We wouldn't dream of tracking your behavior. However, we /are/ curious about how the network grows and how many are using it. Would you like to send an anonymous tick for our statistics? Yes/No (If you really like what we are doing here, please consider flattering, sending bitcoins or make a donation via paypal)"

Then when we release new features and stuff we can allow users to give us a thumbs up/down for the funtionality.

The data could be gathered in google analytics or whichever service we prefer. The important thing is: tracking is opt in. We can track what people like or not but only if they chose to let us know.

jancborchardt commented 11 years ago

Yes, opt-in tracking sounds good. But even when opted in, the data should probably be gathered by a Piwik instance instead of giving it to Google.

johlrogge commented 11 years ago

Agree. Or maybe set up a graphite-instance? cc @codification

brolund commented 11 years ago

-1 for anything Google. :-) Otherwise, I'm also very curious.

codification commented 11 years ago

Setting up Graphite with some kind of HTTP frontend should be straightforward. Perhaps as a sudbdomain to friendsunhosted.com? If we stick to just opt-in and just aggregating numbers (and showing them openly) there should be no problems with integrity as far as I can se.

jancborchardt commented 11 years ago

Yeah, subdomain for that sounds good. In addition to the realtime graphing of Graphite it would be cool to have Piwiki for stuff like bounce rate, referers etc.

johlrogge commented 11 years ago

I really like showing the data openly. Piwiki seems to solve a different, also interesting problem. All in all they seem complementary

jancborchardt commented 11 years ago

Open stats are really nice! For ownCloud we have Piwik set up openly at http://stats.owncloud.org – displaying all the visitor data to http://ownCloud.org and the demo at http://demo.ownCloud.org

johlrogge commented 11 years ago

Wow, piwik looks F#n awesome!