[tor-bugs] #23169 [Metrics/Website]: Explain why metrics are important and what we do to make sure they're safe

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#23169: Explain why metrics are important and what we do to make sure they're safe
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 Reporter:  arma             |          Owner:  irl
     Type:  defect           |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  Medium           |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Website  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal           |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  metrics-2017     |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by karsten):

 That's pretty cool! I could imagine merging this right away. Just two
 rather minor comments:
  - Maybe we can avoid hard-coding relay/bridge/client numbers. Two ideas:
    - We could say "several thousand", "a few thousand", "millions", etc.
 which don't need to be updated very often.
    - We could parse our own CSV files once per day and put in rounded
 numbers. No need to be super precise, but something like "6500+" relays
 could come from the CSV file as well. Unclear if that would be too
 surprising to users, though. And just in case parsing fails we could still
 fall back to "thousands", etc.
  - Let's be consistent with our choice of American vs. British English.
 There are arguments for and against, and having a British English native
 speaker in the team is for sure a good argument for deciding on that. But
 we'd have to update existing text on Tor Metrics to be consistent, and
 we'd start being different than the other Tor websites. But regardless of
 what we decide, we'll have to do it consistently. Also, Oxford Comma.
  - Did I say two comments? Another thing that we might do is move some of
 the sentences under "Welcome" down to "Analysis" and to "Query". Like, a
 single sentence each. Or, we could format the text under "Welcome" using
 two columns to make the text a little less intimidating. Or both.
  - And fourth, we might drop the sentence at the bottom that starts with
 "Let us know if...", or at least move it somewhere else.

 Thanks, this is really a great start!

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