[brainfish]

I love your concept and wish to cheer you on, but this statement

> You can run `fig settings app.disableTelemetry true` to disable all telemetry except for one daily ping.

contains such a blatant lie (disableTelemetry does _not_ disable telemetry) that I've already lost a lot of trust, in an area I am not willing to play trust games. I hope you rethink this, soon and loudly.

[brendanfalk]

I hear you and I agree. This is a huge oversight on our part and we will make the disableTelemetry command turn off all telemetry. This will come out in our next build

[kokanee]

Nice! Good call. These HN posts can bring a lot of heat but it comes with extremely valuable feedback like this. For me it's too late; I've now seen that you need to be caught in the act before you'll do the right thing -- but for folks who didn't see this you'll be much better off going forward.

[binbag]

This seems really harsh. It's not like the guy tried to hide from you that it would still permit one daily ping. He told you straight up.

[shadeslayer_]

This is just unnecessarily rude. The guy had explicitly mentioned about the daily ping and it's mentioned on the product doc as well - so please don't make him up as the big bad guy who says I CAN HAZ DATA

[vletal]

So what does it do? Is it just about the daily ping?

[calrueb]

I assume they use it to track DAUs/MAUs. Otherwise, they only have data on installs, but wouldn't have visibility into user retention.

[qzw]

Yes, most likely. Being VC backed means they will want to be able to show pretty growth charts every few months.

[mst]

Seems like they could've avoided this entirely just by having a daily check for updates to the app itself and accepting the fuzz factor.