Calls Node Listener Statistics

[SpectralContent]

I recently noticed on my "Manage Calls System" page for my nodes that the blue graphic saying something along the lines of "Node statistics and more coming soon" that had been there for a few years is no longer present. (This could have been gone for awhile, but I am just now noticing it.)

Have efforts to make node statistics (particularly listener statistics) available to providers been abandoned or is it still a work in progress?

I would love to know if anyone is actually listening to the nodes I provide! (I'm hoping people other than myself get some use out of them).

 

[blantonl]

Yea, I guess I should just say "we're working on it" 😂

Statistics around who's actually listening to your node is kind of hard, since we operate a little differently where people don't listen to specific nodes, but instead your node is contributing to an overall system where people may be picking and choosing groups that may or may not be provided by your node.

We have a LOT of work to do on calls, and a feature list that has grown really nicely that we're going to implement over the next 12 months. I promise you'll be pleased.

Any if anyone is on the fence on providing a node, get off the fence and do it. We have close to 800 nodes now covering close to 40% of every unencrypted law dispatch and fire dispatch talkgroup defined in the RRDB. Nodes that backup one another are now getting more important, since calls used much more now than it was 2 years ago and there are a LOT of people that depend on it.

 

[SpectralContent]

Yea, I guess I should just say "we're working on it" 😂

Statistics around who's actually listening to your node is kind of hard, since we operate a little differently where people don't listen to specific nodes, but instead your node is contributing to an overall system where people may be picking and choosing groups that may or may not be provided by your node.

We have a LOT of work to do on calls, and a feature list that has grown really nicely that we're going to implement over the next 12 months. I promise you'll be pleased.

Any if anyone is on the fence on providing a node, get off the fence and do it. We have close to 800 nodes now covering close to 40% of every unencrypted law dispatch and fire dispatch talkgroup defined in the RRDB. Nodes that backup one another are now getting more important, since calls used much more now than it was 2 years ago and there are a LOT of people that depend on it.

Thanks for the detailed response, Lindsey.

I figured it could be tricky to do individual node statistics for that reason. Any sort of metric for certain systems to give said system(s) node providers some perspective on how their contribution is being heard by listeners would greatly encourage people to keep contributing their node(s) and potentially expanding their contributions.

I appreciate it and look forward to what is to come in the future.