[metrics-bugs] #25383 [Metrics/Website]: Deprecate stats.html and stats/*.csv files

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#25383: Deprecate stats.html and stats/*.csv files
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 Reporter:  karsten          |          Owner:  metrics-team
     Type:  enhancement      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
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Comment (by karsten):

 Replying to [comment:2 joss]:
 > I might be almost unique in this, but I do actively use the existing
 full user metric .csv files for the infolabe-anomalies mailing list
 (<http://lists.infolabe.net/lists/listinfo/infolabe-anomalies>). This is
 carrying out anomaly detection on a nightly basis looking at user numbers.
 >
 > I'm not entirely sure to what extent this data would still be available
 under the proposed change. I'm fine to update my code a bit to change
 URLs, etc, but if the data disappeared entirely it would harm some of my
 research quite considerably.
 >
 > In a more general sense, I'd strongly advocate for an 'open data'
 principle. You never know what research the next person coming along might
 do, and what it might contribute. At the moment it's a simple curl/wget to
 get that data -- if I had to wrangle a web interface as a precondition to
 carrying out analysis on Tor metrics then it would (possibly) be extremely
 awkward.
 >
 > Again, though, maybe I'm misunderstanding the proposed changes.

 Your use case is special, yet we should make sure it's supported.

 FWIW, you wouldn't have to fight with web interfaces to get the data, as
 the new CSV files are also available via curl/wget, just with optional
 parameters.

 But it might be that none of the new CSV files has all the data you want.
 We should fix that and ensure that your use case continues to work even
 after taking down the old CSV files.

 Needs more thinking. Thanks for bringing this up!

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