[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #6511: Bring back the active install growth chart
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#6511: Bring back the active install growth chart
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Reporter: markzahra | Owner: (none)
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: Plugin Directory | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by uglyrobot):
I can't add anything new to the discussion, but throw my hat in the ring
as a plugin dev who relies on these stats:
My guess on motives from experience of running large APIs is that it's
fairly trivial to artificially inflate these number with bots. Which takes
up much dev time for the constant battle of trying to scale to load and
adjusting algos to attempt to filter out this bad data.
Assuming that's what's happening here, we have 3 options:
1. Nuclear option a kill the whole thing (not acceptable)
1. Open the data up fully and continue the fight to clean data up as much
as possible. I believe despite the data being messy, there is much more
value added to the community as whole having it fully open and transparent
to all, and easily extendable by a powerful API. Competition is good for
users and plugin devs, leading to better quality and experiences.
1. Remove the motivation to game stats by making it only available to the
plugin devs
a. Fully transparent numbers please, I want to know my actual install
count!
b. Possibly later add in some more simplified public stat for users, like
a growing/declining indicator arrow with %.
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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6511#comment:73>
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