Usage Analytics

[LinqLover]

As the developer of TelegramSmalltalkBot and the hoster of @SqueakSmalltalkBot, I would like to learn more about the usage of the bot. Some questions are:

• Which/how many persons use the bot?
• How often do they use the bot?
• How many initial requests are made without sending a single message (i.e., the user stops using the bot after sending the /start message)?
• What kind of expressions are sent to the bot and what domains are they about?
• What are common bugs and limitations? For example, random samples have shown that the Transcript functionality is assumed quite often.

Some concrete approaches could be:

• Instantiate a new session already when the /start message is sent?
• Add a bot-wide session counter that also counts sessions that have been removed again? Unfortunately, if a user resets the session and then starts a new one, the counter would be increased twice. Would it be okay to preserve hashes of the chat IDs even if a session is reset?
• Build a simple usage diagram (similar to the traffic chart in GitHub Insights)?
• Log all user errors separately? Rather not, filtering seems more useful here.

The raw data can be accessed using:

(Bot instVarNamed: #sessions) values collect: [:session | (session instVarNamed: #answers) in: [:answers | answers values anyOne referenceMessage from -> (answers values collect: [:answer | answer referenceMessage mainText])]] as: Dictionary

[LinqLover]

Maybe even create a simple dashboard?