# Generic domain for app development

**URL:** <https://help.nextcloud.com/t/generic-domain-for-app-development/147153>\
**Category:** 💻 Development\
**Created:** [October 10, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/generic-domain-for-app-development/147153 "2022-10-10T18:46:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daphne](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/daphne/32/47373_2.png) [@Daphne](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/Daphne)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/generic-domain-for-app-development/147153/3 "2022-10-11T10:59:11Z")

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So I just checked the results that were listed of the community survey of last year. It does include interesting information about architecture, use case, and nextcloud version in use, but not about php…

> [@Results of the Nextcloud Community Survey 2021](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/results-of-the-nextcloud-community-survey-2021/127396):
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> Hello there, A few weeks ago many of you took part in our [Community Survey](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/who-are-we-take-part-in-the-nextcloud-community-survey/124056/21) and you probably know how you answered, but not how everybody else answered. The following are the results of our inquiry about the feelings and attitudes but also some hard facts in connection with people’s use of Nextcloud. If you have additional questions that could be answered with this data, you can contact @Daphne . She will try to help you further and update this wiki accordingly with the results! I refrained fr…

I will make sure this gets linked on [Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials](http://nextcloud.com/developer) too.

Of course this will not solve the issue of the AI you mentioned. If we allow for such central data collection, let’s at least try to encourage really consent / good opt in standards that are not a take-it-or-leave-it choice.

Bottom line I still think your initiative makes sense.

Just suggesting a path forward here to be constructive, but you can ignore all if you think it makes no sense:

Write a documentation page introducing the domain, what it’s for, and how to use it. Can be a forum thread.  
 Make a decision about using it for usage statistics: should we allow data collection about infrastructure, or should this be put in a more central, more explicit opt-in, questionnaire  
 Make a decision about other fair use standards, e.g. regarding data collection needed to train an AI model.  
 Update the documentation with those decisions  
 Ask Daphne to link it on [Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials](http://nextcloud.com/developer)

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