One of my favorite side projects, [Full Text Tabs Forever](https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever/), has quietly been gaining users. I found this out by shipping a new version that completely broke the extension! Yes, terrible user experience. The upshot though is that the comments on the web store and the direct emails I got made it much concrete that people actually use this thing. People want this thing to work. A quick aside: Why did you ship a version that broke everything? This is simply a case of inadequate QA. This is a chrome extension, and after writing the new version I tested it on no less than _three_ separate Chrome profiles. No matter, it broke completely in the hands of existing users. I rolled back the change and restored functionality. However, I still have not debugged the underlying issue. More importantly, I will need to come with a better QA process for future releases. This project has reached the state where real people feel the pain if the app breaks. I cannot continue to "test in prod". A good problem to have. --- Side note: I didn't add any analytics to this extension. This is a win for users, in that Google possibly gets less of their data, but it's also a loss in that I (the developer) don't know the user exist unless they email me saying the app is broken. Analytics gets a bad wrap because all the data passes through some megacorp. That's fair, but developers like myself really would like to know how people are using our apps. Not because we want to resell data, but because it helps us prioritize.