markosaric

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   by markosaric 6y ago

   True. There's a lot of value in data server logs provide for many use cases. But for sites that use Google Analytics right now, in majority of cases they don't want that data and that data makes their dashboard so noisy that is no
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   We're hoping to start a conversation with browsers such as Brave and Firefox and blocklist maintainers about this. One way to incentivize even more sites to move from GA et al would be to create some kind of privacy criteria and whitel
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   Look into the Top Pages report on the linked page for the full list of all blog posts ranked by popularity. Click on the individual post to filter the dashboard by traffic to that post only.
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   We have no evidence of that happening. Also Google themselves are on record saying that they don't use GA data for their search algorithm. I wrote a post on this topic: https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-se
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   Thanks for submitting Plausible! We have a feature that sends alerts for traffic spikes so I just got an alert that we have large number of visors thanks to this post! (I'm the co-founder of Plausible)
6. 36.▲
   by markosaric 6y ago

   Plausible can actually do that and we have the same exact use case showing in our live demo (filtering by /blog/ only and allowing filtering per blog post). See https://plausible.io/plausible.io and click on &quot
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   As in server logs? Accuracy would be the main thing. I did a study and found huge number of bots in server logs (AWStats shows 18 times higher number of page views than Plausible on my own website for instance). See https://plaus
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   Yes. Take a look at our shared links feature (private, secure and can be password protected). Those with the shared link only get access to the individual dashboard that you shared and nothing else. https://plausible.io/docs
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   by markosaric 6y ago

   GhostWriter is amazing! I use it on Linux and write all my posts with it! Simple, minimal, lightweight, has a dark theme. There's a distraction free mode which basically fades out everything except for the sentence you are writing. And
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    What we learned on our journey to $10k MRR(plausible.io)

    1 points by markosaric 6y ago|1 comments
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    thank you David for the kind words and the support! and thanks for sharing my post too!
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Congrats to DuckDuckGo! It's amazing to see a privacy-first Google alternative making such great progress! I personally contribute with a few searches every day :) Just checked the stats for our startup: December: Google 5.3k visitors
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    thanks! perhaps because we're new to open source maintenance, but early on we tried to help each and every support request from self-hosters and it quickly turned out an impossible task. we do help every paying subscriber so tried to d
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    thanks! all our code is still on github so you could just download the "testing" version we use on the cloud and run that. the slower schedule of the official "stable" self-hosted release is to simply make it possible fo
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    you can see the exact method on our data policy: https://plausible.io/data-policy
16. 46.▲
    by markosaric 6y ago

    for sure. we spoke to some more experienced open source developers and this was the idea they proposed. we thought it's worth a try
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    thanks! glad you're enjoying Plausible!
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    thank you! it's great to see some more ethical alternatives available for site owners
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    thank you for your support!
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    Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS(plausible.io)

    173 points by markosaric 6y ago|41 comments
21. 51.▲
    by markosaric 6y ago

    they're still hosted by Google rather than self-hosted.
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    So true! So many sites use those icons/symbols in the nav etc so their sites end up broken without web fonts. Other than that, it feels so much better and faster blocking web fonts.
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Yeah. That's the first thing I noticed. I was curious whether the OP either returned back to Google Fonts since posting this or never did it in the first place!?
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    That's great to see! At Plausible Analytics, we had a wave of spam attacks two months ago or so and hCaptcha saved us. Great product and great service both for companies and for users. We're very happy with how it works. And great
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    RIP Maradona! The greatest footballer of all time! Napoli is crying :(
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    For Linux, there's Flatseal for all Flatpak apps. Easy and simple GUI that allows you to set permissions for individual apps including network access, microphone/camera access and directories access.
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    have similar experience. struggled with Matrix/Element and with Signal too. the only app that works for non-techy audience in my experience is Telegram. i got several people to stick and continue using Telegram while i did not succeed
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    How to know if you're ready to switch from Mac to Linux(opensource.com)

    3 points by markosaric 6y ago|0 comments
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    So true! It's like "Firefox is not perfect so let's support Chrome which is not trying at all"! How will that ever make anything better!?
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    by markosaric 6y ago

    Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. So yes, there's no way for us to know whether the same person returns to a website on another day. See https://plausible