Saidit.net — April 11, 2019 — New visual format to links on the main page

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[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

How much traffic does that use? Is there a way to break it down? A stats page? Be interesting to follow, ie. make it evident the iOS app will be a success.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

tbh the only real indicator we have is here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.saiditnet.redreader

where it says 500+ installs. Other than that we have no real data about it

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I guess that would be cookies or something?

Is there an ethical way to ping anon stats? Like type of use, browser version, RSS version, app version, etc?

Is it even worth your time?

I'm quite sure there'd be little nuggets of interesting info in there. Not necessarily to exploit but stats can be good just to know.

For example, I use my Brave browser. Also I also have Thunderbird doing the RSS feed thing on new posts and new comments, as a potential partial archive and search option should I get desperate to find something lost in time. I also set up my old Feedly to pull those same 2 feeds. Not necessarily because I use Feedly anymore, but because it at least knows SaidIt exists where it didn't before - and now others using the old Feedly thing can have it as an option should seek more feeds. It's not a huge thing, but all these little things add up.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

We could set up tracking systems to generate stats, but it's literally a 20+ hour project and it just doesn't matter that much tbh. We've already got a fair number of indicators and our time is stretched thin, so we don't see the value in it. Plus it just adds more things to load, slows down pageload time, etc

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I thought there might be some auto-stats already built in.

I guess when you take on ads it might be worth it.

I have nothing against ads. They are what they are. Even if you used Google's AdSense I wouldn't hold it against you, though I'd hope you'd find more independent alternatives and/or ethical ads.

Ads could bring in funding for more coders, not staff but, maybe as a bounty per task. Never to rely on them, only to build. And when the big crash comes, you won't have a staff to let go or strange admin requirements.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I do want to restore the built in sub traffic stats. That might have a break down by browser or app.

Ads could bring in funding for more coders, not staff but, maybe as a bounty per task.

I much prefer volunteer coding with no ads. If no one wants to help then the platform is dead and we should all move on. Luckily, we're getting much help and have at least 5 coders working in the SaidIt ecosystem.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I totally agree. Volunteers are preferred. So is a fair and just peaceful society. But sometimes it's necessary to get professionals or have people with responsibility.

Burning Man is all volunteers except for a very few. Their jobs are critical and require responsibility or are the unpleasant things requiring payment. Whether it's managing the media, lawyers, the police, the ambulances, or making sure the turd burglars (porta pottie vaccumers) are on time - some things are very necessary and can't be left to cat herded volunteers. Action Girl once said she always assigns two volunteers to every task and even then some things don't get done. It's how it is.

Apples and oranges I guess.