Page feedback shouldn't require that a Google Analytics ID be set as a config parameter

[chalin]

Google Analytics isn't always enabled via Docsy config -- for example, see:

• Google Analytics 4 migration followup open-policy-agent/opa#5384 and
• Migrate to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) prometheus/docs#2181

For such projects, that want to use the page-feedback feature, they should be able to enable page-feedback without having to supply a bogus analytics ID. WDYT @LisaFC @emckean @geriom?

[LisaFC]

So at the moment the only way to track the results of the page feedback feature is using Analytics - presumably users could hook their own mechanism in there but we'd need to mention that explicitly.

[emckean]

Yeah, I agree that having a way to hook up page-feedback to something other than Analytics would be a good idea. What would people use instead? My naive implementation would be to use some kind of webhook or Netlify function ...

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On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 9:39 AM LisaFC ***@***.***> wrote: So at the moment the only way to track the results of the page feedback feature is using Analytics - presumably users could hook their own mechanism in there but we'd need to mention that explicitly. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1311 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABXBGMIQ2UVOGLNCNIW36TWIJ2OBANCNFSM6AAAAAAR77Q7TQ> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[chalin]

To clarify: the projects I referred to are using Google Analytics (GA). It's just that GA isn't set up via Docsy -- it's set up via Netlify snippet injection. So GA is still active, but Docsy doesn't know about it. They way I've kept the page-feedback active is by supplying a bogus GA ID, but I'd rather avoid that if possible.

[emckean]

Oh, thank you! That's interesting, I wonder what the advantage is to using Netlify snippets? But yes, if something could be configured I vote for configuration 😂

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On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:37 AM Patrice Chalin ***@***.***> wrote: To clarify: the projects I referred to *are* using Google Analytics (GA). It's just that GA isn't set up via Docsy -- it's set up via Netlify snippet injection. So GA *is* still active, but Docsy doesn't know about it. They way I've kept the page-feedback active is by supplying a bogus GA ID, but I'd rather avoid that if possible. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1311 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABXBGOO6HFNG6QGFPRH63LWIKBE7ANCNFSM6AAAAAAR77Q7TQ> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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[chalin]

There are a number of advantages, which I hope to share here (or during the next PSC meeting I"m able to attend) soon.