Plugin download count doesn't take into account how many people just use
Slimserver without a Squeezebox, maybe just with Softsqueeze or other
player. Not a bad metric, but I think there's too much variance.
Some more random data for the month of may '06:
SlimCD: 535
MusicInfoSCR: 167
AlbumReview: 219
Biography: 161
NoSetup: 38
SlimRemote: 420
But then there are those downloads which are cancelled. Take the SlimCD
example: those 535 downloads generated "only" 31GB of traffic. Considering
a download size of 100MB this number should be much higher. There must
have been about 30% canceled downloads.
Now, how much feedback do I get for these hundreds of downloads? A few
dozens. SlimRemote? I know of about a hand full of users who at least
tried to run it. All the other either just use it or threw it away
immediately. What I want to say: only a minor number of users is here in
the forums. Most users just run their Slimserver and Squeezeboxes without
ever appearing here. Forum user count is as little a measure as plugin
downloads.
BTW: last night, when I got aware of the numbers for SlimCD, I had to
check my web hoster's contract... SlimCD has been downloaded about 4300x
since the first announcement about 12 months ago, generating some 300GB of
traffic. Though this is a shared hosting environment I luckily enough
don't have a traffic limit. SlimCD is generating about 97% of my domain's
transfer volume :-)
--
Michael
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