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by ghilston 498 days ago
I don't post on hacker news often so forgive me if sharing a link to my own blog post is not kosher. I'll remove it if so.

I've been experimenting with using a flip phone for a few months now. It's got some quirks and has been more interesting of a switch then I thought.

I wrote about it here:

https://www.greghilston.com/post/switching-to-a-flip-phone/

Disclaimer, I have two analytics JS libraries running. One is gA, the other is one I've been meaning to rip out but haven't yet. I also want to add a comment system that ties into say GitHub posts or something else. Open to any advice on making these posts more "hacker" friendly
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JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B 498 days ago
I find it interesting that a hacker with a flip phone would use analytics at all. Can you explain why you feel this need?
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ghilston 497 days ago
Definitely no need but more of curiosity and current smith of time I'm willing to spend on my site.

I've had my site for many years and the analytics set up were set up from the start. The amount of free time I can decorate to my site and the length of my blocks of free time have drastically changed, which made me focus the time I spend on my site to only writing. I have a large backlog of non writing things I wish to do, but can't justify them as of right now.

I'm going to remove the UI tracking component as I never look at the data. It was just something I thought was neat and was exploring for a work situation at the time.

The usage of GA is nice as it tells me what posts are popular but that's really not important in the grand scheme of things. As I always blog about what I find interesting regardless of how popular it is.

So in short, if I was willing to dedicate my time I spend on my site to non blogging right now, is rip out our of the analytics tool. And look for a replacement on the other, or rip it out entirely.

The flip phone component was mostly to decrease the availability of distractions in my life. Which doesn't necessarily mean I'm against analytics but yeah. I hope that answers your question. Thanks for taking an interest in my setup :)

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