What do yall think of capsules logging each page request? I'm very heavily debating internally weather I should log requests made to my capsule. If I'm going to log, I will put a label on my site informing the user about that. I know I personally change my behaviour when I'm being tracked, but on the other side, my curiosity want's to know what pages people visit. That's all I'm gonna log in that case: the file paths. No IPs or anything like that.

10 months ago · 👍 m_a_r_k, bookscorpion

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I think that would be okay. Logging IPs too. If you consider certs to be metadata, then certs and access times are, near as I can tell, the only metadata you could correlate IPs with. If you log which "certified" identities stop by, I would log that separately from IPs, so they will be harder to correlate. As for access times, they are less of a big deal, though they can be used to make a decent guess about what part of the world a person is in, especially combined with an IP. You could log access times down to just the date, rather than the hour. Also, remember that you will have to continually purge logged IPs to stay GDPR compliant! · 10 months ago

yeah for sure, and it's not unusual either - I hang out on Dreamwidth a bunch and a LOT of communities/blogs on there log IP addresses for the same reason · 10 months ago

I don't see that as a problem, especially not if it's only file paths. And it's just interesting to see, as the capsule (or website) owner what people look for. · 10 months ago

ive thought about logging to do a "hit count " on pages that shows how many views like the early 2000s internet · 10 months ago

I kind of assume anything I access is logged. · 10 months ago

I do log gmid (gemini server), nginx, gophernicus and finger like they're configured out-of-the-box. But I don't pay attention to the logs until there's a problem. I don't care who reads my content. · 10 months ago