Automatically-generated community metrics

[MakisH]

A rather common question is "how many people use preCICE?". We could already visualize some facts on the website.

We currently have, on the landing page:

• Number of stars
• Number of citations (currently broken, see Landing page: Citation details outdated/broken #522)
• Logowall (updated manually)

We could also collect some of these facts in the community landing page: https://precice.org/community.html

We could embed:

• Analytics of the various repositories (core, tutorials) from GitHub. For example:
  • Number of contributors
  • Recent commit activity
  • Recent releases
  • Number of stars
• Some analytics from Plausible Analytics (analytics of our website)
• Download counts of the release artifacts. There are some third-party apps that get such data using the GitHub API (example).
• Analytics of the Discourse forum:
  • Number of users
  • Number of threads

There is probably a lot more, and various implementation ways.