Reconsider whether we want to continue using an analytics service

[WorldLanguages]

I think we often forget that we have https://analytics.scratchaddons.com, so I don't see the point of keeping it.

We should really consider having no website analytics at all, or find out if we have reached any meaningful conclusions after all these months - probably not.

[Secret-chest]

The /welcome and /farewell pages could be pretty useful.

[BroJac5246]

How is this a bug?

[WorldLanguages]

The /welcome and /farewell pages could be pretty useful.

I think extension stores provide similar analytics, but they don't easily let you make them public.
And serious question: will our decisions depend on how-many/when users are installing or removing the extension? I don't really think so

[WorldLanguages]

Asking for more opinions: @mxmou @jeffalo @DNin01 @lisa-wolfgang @Hans5958

[Samq64]

I don't think it's really necessary, but it could be useful. The only thing I didn't realize was how many Chromebook users we have. For the welcome and farewell pages, there are other ways to see the number of activitie extension users, although I'm not sure if any of them are public besides th downloads on the stores and count on the main page.

[Secret-chest]

The welcome or farewell pages could also tell us how many users we gained in a time period.

[Hans5958]

I'm a little bit neutral on this one. While I don't refer to this page that often (partly because I don't save it as a bookmark), I would find it useful from time to time.

[BroJac5246]

Is there a point to getting rid of it? Are we self-hosting or paying for it? I think that if there's no point to getting rid of it then we should keep it, but if there is a point or we're paying a meaningful amount of money then we should get rid of it because it's not worth it.

[WorldLanguages]

Is there a point to getting rid of it?

I think the main reason to get rid of website analytics is having a more concise privacy policy. The less things we have to mention in the privacy policy, the better. Plausible is better than Google Analytics (which we used at some point) but it's even better not to use any analytics service if we're not finding it useful.

Are we self-hosting or paying for it?

It has been (and is) hosted by Jeffalo for a while. At some point in the future, I might have to pay for a server (but many other ideas require a server, so I wouldn't think this is a problem).

[WorldLanguages]

The only thing I didn't realize was how many Chromebook users we have.

The welcome or farewell pages could also tell us how many users we gained in a time period.

Both of these are already part of Chrome Web Store's analytics:

[WorldLanguages]

Maybe I could find a way to make Chrome Web Store analytics public, and then we can reconsider to stop using Plausible.

[WorldLanguages]

Would anyone be completely against removing Plausible analytics even if Chrome Web Store analytics were made public and visible through a dashboard similar to analytics.scratchaddons.com?

I believe it's a better replacement, and it would also mean that the data collection is in charge of Google and not us. Of course, these two aren't mutually exclusive, but it would make our privacy practices even easier to understand as there won't be any analytics (collected directly by us) at all.

[DNin01]

Maybe I could find a way to make Chrome Web Store analytics public, and then we can reconsider to stop using Plausible.

I suppose that's not a bad idea. We've never really needed anything more to function.