Goodbye GoatCounter, hello NeatStats

I've changed my analytics provider again. GoatCounter is out, and NeatStats is in. NeatStats is made by Adam, the person behind omg.lol, and I have liked pretty much everything he's built so far. How the stats work There's no tracking script on this site. My server already writes a log of every request, so a script reads through those logs and sends each visit to NeatStats, which turns them into the stats I look at. For each visit, NeatStats gets: your IP address your browser's user agent the referrer (the page you came from) the page you asked for NeatStats doesn't log IP addresses, but I'd still rather not send them at all. I'm going to ask Adam if I can send a country code in the API call myself instead. That way I can work out the country on my side, and your IP address never leaves my server. I've updated the privacy policy to match. Stars instead of bubbles While I was at it, I've also switched to NeatStats' upvote ("updoot"!) button. The bubbles widget is gone completely and…

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