Plugin install statistics

Development
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So this is really cool:

I wonder, do @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 :wink:

One example of a plugin that loads of people clearly use, but havenโ€™t posted about much is the dropbox sync plugin (3rd topic in the โ€œtopโ€ list of Meta for this year). Itโ€™s just recently got a lot of posts about it because itโ€™s broken :laughing:.

If itโ€™s not something you collect, is it something youโ€™d be interested in adding to the existing version check pings?

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Giant can of worms there, so not particularly interested in reopening it at this time.

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From a technical perspective? Or a privacy perspective?

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Well, youโ€™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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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.

Itโ€™s a bit of a minefield from a privacy perspective, but I still think it would be cool (probably cos Iโ€™m not the one that would have to take responsibility for collecting the data :wink: ).

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For political reasons, it has to be a public page. Sorry!