The install count
The NetherNode README shows how many installs are active. That number only includes installs whose owners chose to be counted. It’s off unless you turn it on.
Turning it on or off
Section titled “Turning it on or off”Only in the panel: Settings › Anonymous stats (owners only). There’s no
configuration setting or environment variable to turn it on. Settings shows
where reports go; install_count.url
can point them somewhere else.
Installs from before 0.2.2 could turn it on with install_count.enabled or
NETHERNODE_INSTALL_COUNT__ENABLED. If that’s still set, it’s carried over
to the Settings switch once, and ignored after that; remove it.
Turning it off deletes the install ID, so turning it back on later counts as a new install.
What’s sent
Section titled “What’s sent”About once a day (and shortly after you turn it on), NetherNode sends one HTTPS request to the counter with exactly this, which Settings also shows:
{"id": "3f1c2b9a-7d4e-4a6b-9c2d-1e0f5a7b8c9d", "version": "0.1.0"}idis a random UUID made on your machine when you turn counting on. It isn’t derived from anything: not your hardware, hostname, account or address.versionis NetherNode’s version.
Nothing else is sent: no names, hostnames, server or player information, settings, or usage.
What the counter keeps
Section titled “What the counter keeps”The counter is a small open-source Cloudflare Pages project (counter/ in
the NetherNode repository) at https://nethernode-installs.pages.dev. It
stores each install ID, its version, and the day of the last report, and
forgets an install after 90 days without one. It keeps no request logs and
doesn’t store IP addresses, though like any web request, the connection
itself comes from your address. The badge counts IDs heard
from in the last 30 days.