[theme-reviewers] Tracking for themes&plugins

[Ulrich Pogson]

@Emil Do you have reports from users that is so or is it just experience?

I know that Yoast SEO and EDD have been able to get data successfully.

It is interesting that that three people feel strongly against it. I wonder
what is so wrong.
On 7 Feb 2014 23:25, "Emil Uzelac" <emil at uzelac.me> wrote:

> Most users will not opt-in, therefore you will not have enough of feedback
> anyways.
> Here's what you can try: http://www.usertesting.com
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Codeinwp <support at codeinwp.com> wrote:
>
>> @Ulrich I don't anything in mind now I am just trying to understand what
>> is acceptable and what is the best way of doing it.
>>
>> It would be for example very interesting if I have a theme to know which
>> is the most used plugin along with it. Also for example in number of
>> installs, if there are 10.000 downloads on wordpress.org is interesting
>> to know how many people use actually the theme and how big are those sites,
>> the same is nice to know if a particular feature is enabled/disabled by
>> most of the users or not .
>>
>> The thing is that in most of the cases users don't provide feedback, if
>> they don't like something after they download the theme, they look for
>> another and if there are 2 themes both with 10k downloads but one of them
>> is still present on 1k sites and the other on 3k it means that 1st one has
>> some issues ( maybe it's hard to configure properly as per demo ) .
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Ulrich Pogson <grapplerulrich at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> What type of information would you track?
>>> On 7 Feb 2014 22:50, "Codeinwp" <support at codeinwp.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hello everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I am thinking for a while at a opt-in tracking solution for our themes
>>>> and plugins that don't bother users/wp.org, but still help us build
>>>> better products and understand our users and I haven't seen any debate
>>>> here, so I am starting it :) .
>>>>
>>>> I came across yoast seo plugin which implement an opt-in tracking that
>>>> tracks : posts/comments/theme used/plugins used/pages/number of users and
>>>> of course since they receive the tracking request from a site, they can
>>>> relate those things with thisismysite.com ( no user tracking, unless
>>>> you subscribe ) .
>>>>
>>>> Is this completely acceptable by everyone ?
>>>>
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>>
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