Octoprint: [Request] Allow users to browse most popular / trending plugins
@foosel, in your latest live stream you talked about how you've implemented a new tracking system to collect information about OctoPrint instances in the latest maintenance/devel branches. I think it would awesome if plugin identifiers were compared against the plugin repo to inform the user about what the hottest plugins are. I've been a long time OctoPrint user and I just learned about OctoLapse though social media. I think it would be cool if a plugin that powerful and useful was easily discoverable to OctoPrint users straight out of the box. I'm still discovering useful plugins, but that is happening through community interactions. I know this would have to be down the road once the collection of data has matured, and perhaps you have concerns about using that data for this purpose? I personally feel like it would be a huge boost the the OctoPrint experience :)
chatrat12
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That is actually the reason why I want to track installed plugins. Currently the system only supports tracking actual plug-in installs (and uninstalls and enabling and disabling) when they take place though, I don't track the full plug-in list on eg startup since the way I built this tracker imposes certain limitations on how much data can be sent. But this could still be changed down the road.
For now I first want to see if people are actually open to this kind of opt-in anonymous usage tracking. It wouldn't make much sense to setup a complex infrastructure now to base things like popularity reports for plugins on only to then find out that no one enables it.
foosel
on 28 Jul 2018
馃Ч sweep sweep
Don't mind me, just cleaning up old requests.
Now available on https://plugins.octoprint.org and within the plugin manager
cp2004
on 23 Oct 2020
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That is actually the reason why I want to track installed plugins. Currently the system only supports tracking actual plug-in installs (and uninstalls and enabling and disabling) when they take place though, I don't track the full plug-in list on eg startup since the way I built this tracker imposes certain limitations on how much data can be sent. But this could still be changed down the road.
For now I first want to see if people are actually open to this kind of opt-in anonymous usage tracking. It wouldn't make much sense to setup a complex infrastructure now to base things like popularity reports for plugins on only to then find out that no one enables it.