As soon as 5.0 launches, I will play The Thousand Year Door again! But for the first time with the amazing HD texture pack
Making Dolphin More Productive - Optional Usage Statistics Reporting
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06-19-2016, 11:57 PM
... Why not play now?
The dev release is going to be 5.0 with a different label.
As long you keep up with the latest development builds you are completely up to date. 5.0 is just a particular build labelled as 5.0. Development builds will still continue through. It may take a long time (month? years?) before 6.0 will be released, but you could just stay up to date with the latest improvements with the latest development builds. 5.0 won't do anything different than the current latest development build for Paper Mario, unless a big feature is comming in the next days, but then you just get the latest development build again.
It is for the best to stay within the 100 latest revisions to stay up to date. Sometimes there could be multiple new revisions on a day. 06-20-2016, 04:25 AM
And sometimes those revisions can break everything! But with the feature freeze in place, that hasn't really happened (except once or twice.)
06-20-2016, 06:08 AM
Just registered to add my support to this. Sadly, I am already seeing some knee jerk negative reaction to this (Reddit) so I just wanted to opine that I am in full support of telemetry. It's opt-in and optional and the software is open-source so IMO nobody really has any reason to object to this.
Hopefully you'll get a lot of useful data from this. I'll certainly opt-in.
Yea, revisions that break stuff are the worst, but I am having faith in you, the developers. Truly, the rate at which issues are fixed is astounding. I never noticed another project with so much dedication. I am more than glad to contribute to the analystics data collection cause, just because it is open source and I could check the code myself.
06-20-2016, 06:46 AM
We fully expected a negative reaction. You have to take risks, and I think going forward from 5.0 users will really get to see how useful this is. If we're wrong, we're going to look stupid, if we're right, then it'll be a brilliant last second decision.
06-20-2016, 06:47 AM
Telemetry and stuff is only shit if it's enabled by default (or can't even be deactivated).
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06-21-2016, 08:18 AM
So what information does this collect exactly? From the link to Analytics.cpp can I only see it collecting information about hardware/OS and the settings used. I assume it does more because that information on itself isn't all that usefull when looking for issues. Like how much is sent when something does go wrong? All Analytics.cpp contains is a list of things collected anyway. Not how it gets to that data. I assume it gets most of the hardware /OS information from the stuff Dolphin needs to know in order to function properly anyway.
Also not sure how I feel about Dolphin making an unique ID for each user. Feels to me like unnecessary information that could be used to indentify someone. I'm not an expert at coding or anything so I might have interpreted some things wrong. But I think I will wait until someone independent that has knowledge about this stuff looks at the code and confirms how much privacy you truly sacrifice (if any). 06-21-2016, 09:06 AM
(06-21-2016, 08:18 AM)Skywolf Wrote: I'm not an expert at coding or anything so I might have interpreted some things wrong. But I think I will wait until someone independent that has knowledge about this stuff looks at the code and confirms how much privacy you truly sacrifice (if any). Well, you have the article and the source code available to audit. If you're still worried, when Dolphin asks if you want to share data, click no. Problem solved.
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