grapevine VS Plausible Analytics

grapevine.haus/

I've heard of people having decent results using the Grapevine web client on iOS, although an iPad with a physical keyboard is probably much preferred over an on-screen keyboard. The only catch is that the game has to be registered with Grapevine and the web client enabled, as far as I know at least.

There's also still some diehard MU* players out there, and some modern servers in active development. See Ares MUSH and Evennia (a MUD-like server), directories https://mustard.mythicus.net/ and https://grapevine.haus/.

This question is asked rather frequently. There are very few truly active aggregation sites any more. The most active, but pretty incomplete site is probably grapevine: https://grapevine.haus/

If you want immersion in a more low-fi text-based setting, maybe head to /r/MUD and look into a MUD that pushes your buttons in terms of settings and mechanics. Try some of the games linked into Grapevine if you're not familiar with MUDs. Lots of nice games to get your feet wet, there, until you find one to call home. Just a warning, MUDs are not immune to suffering from a high number of low-effort games, but it seems easier to find the good ones that it does with PBBGs.

I have three to share, but they tie for the same reasons. Armageddon, Sindome and Star Conquest have pretty cool areas. Armageddon a Mad Max out in the desert type of vibe with people trying to survive with mutants and the like, Sindome is a cyber punk dystopian future where anything is possible and Star Conquest a future space opera with three main factions fighting it out for supremacy. All have people on at basically all times of the day. Armageddon Host name - www.armageddon.org 4050 Sindome Moo.sindome.org 5555 Star Conquest moo.squidsoft.net 7777 All three are heavy into role playing, however. So it will be required. I do believe Sindome and maybe Star Conquest have classes. I mean they have jobs, but I think you can gain abilities not in your skill set. I believe all are PvP and PvE, so it can be stressful if getting attacked I suppose. I am not much into PvP myself though. They may or may not have OOC channels. All three are free to play. Currently Armageddon is MUD of the Month and can be played with the community on Saturdays and Sundays UTC -5 or CDT at 6pm till 12am. You are welcome to join us if you like. Consequently Grapevine is the Mud website of the Month https://grapevine.haus/ This website has 140+ games. It has a great feature with it's stats screen for each game. It gives you how many players have been on the last 48 hours, last week, last month, last year and time of day for busy hours. So that may help you in finding a good MUD as well.

https://grapevine.haus/ is most popular right now

I think a single Google Analytics alternative is pretty hard to pick considering that GA can be used to very much varying extents.

For simple and "detailed enough" insights, I enjoyed using Plausible (https://plausible.io/) in the past.

For more in depth analytics that give you a detailed view into your own product, PostHog.com seems to be by far the best and most popular option out there.

I could do the same exercise with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, but luckily I don't need to, since Plausible already did. A piece of advice, rip out Google Analytics and use Plausible instead. It first of all doesn't destroy your website, and secondly it doesn't violate the GDPR - So you can embed it on your site without having to warn your visitors about that they're being spied on by Google.

Also, currently we are using https://plausible.io/ for analytics. No other bugs.

I just swapped out Google Analytics with Plausible for AINIRO.IO. It’s only been a week, but so far I am super jazzed about it. First of all, Plausible doesn’t use cookies, so I can completely drop all cookie disclaimers and popups I had because of GDPR. Second of all, the site scores significantly better on load time. This results in a 10x better user experience for my website visitors, while making sure the website is still 100% conforming to GDPR laws.

No clue what you mean, browser cache might even clear itself without you doing anything manually. This thing makes no sense.

Nowhere ever did it say Tech Demo anywhere, not in the HN headline, not on the page itself. No, thanks. And even as a tech demo, there is nothing impressive going in. It is stores shit to local storage, I guess. Lol, I just looked this up, and it was in Firefox on 2009 already? WHAT? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca... I never used it myself directly, but I remember reading about some API that kind of is the new version of cookies that can store more and better and I think that is it. 2009, I would swear what I think about was newer, maybe I am mixing something up, maybe not.

It has unnecessarily tracking from the comment above, not sure if it even sends all your notes to https://plausible.io, and I do not care. For me, this fails as a tech demo or whatever the fuck It's supposed to be. Sorry to not get all excited about everything posted here. In 2009 it for sure would ;)

If you already use Posthog, Web Analytics has been in Public Beta for quite some time.[1]

If I remember correctly, CloudFlare Analytics does not need you to register your domain with them. I personally feel keeping domain registration coupled with your DNS provider is not a good idea.

Plausible[2] has an Open Source self-hostable version but is not so updated in sync with their SaaS version.

Umami[3] is another simple, clean one. And, of course, as many have suggested, Matomo is the other well-established one. If you want to avoid maintaining a hosting routine, a lot do the hosting out of the box these days. PikaPods[4] was good when I tried and played around for a while.

1. https://posthog.com/docs/web-analytics

2. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

3. https://umami.is

4. https://www.pikapods.com

Plausible - Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics

There are many good, lightweight, and open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, such as Plausible, Matomo, Fathom, Simple Analytics, and so on. Many of these options are open-source, and can be self-hosted.

You log the IP address, referrer, user agent and the requested page URL but you don't set a unique cookie to identify the user.

This still gets you plenty of actionable analytics information: where geographically people are located (via GeoIP), what pages are most popular, what platforms (including desktop vs mobile) people are using.

I've been using https://plausible.io for analytics on a bunch of my sites for a couple of years now and I honestly don't miss the extra level of detail I got from cookie-based analytics I've used in the past.