### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-install-statistics/68473/1 "2017-08-21T13:45:28Z")
So this is really cool:
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I wonder, do [@team](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/team) collect any similar statistics for plugin installations? It would be really cool to know what are the most used plugins for Discourse. Right now the only real measure I can see is the number of posts on meta about the plugin - and that generally just means something has gone wrong with it 😉
One example of a plugin that loads of people clearly use, but haven’t posted about much is the [dropbox sync](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-backups-to-dropbox/51176/62) plugin (3rd topic in the “top” list of Meta for this year). It’s just recently got a lot of posts about it because it’s broken 😆.
If it’s not something you collect, is it something you’d be interested in adding to the existing version check pings?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-install-statistics/68473/2 "2017-08-21T18:14:32Z")
Giant can of worms there, so not particularly interested in reopening it at this time.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-install-statistics/68473/3 "2017-08-21T18:18:27Z")
From a technical perspective? Or a privacy perspective?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-install-statistics/68473/4 "2017-08-21T19:14:54Z")
Well, you’d need to start with public page that lists the installed plugins. The value of such a page is pretty questionable to the outside world.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-install-statistics/68473/5 "2017-08-21T19:59:08Z")
Rather than a public page, I was thinking that a list of plugins could be attached to the payload currently sent to `https://api.discourse.org/hub` whenever updates are checked. So the info would only be available to the team, and could then be shared in an anonymised way with the public.
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It’s a bit of a minefield from a privacy perspective, but I still think it would be cool (probably cos I’m not the one that would have to take responsibility for collecting the data 😉 ).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2017, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-install-statistics/68473/6 "2017-08-21T20:15:05Z")
For political reasons, it has to be a public page. Sorry!