On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 07:40:57PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:

> > FLAC 1.2.1 is the last version that works on Win95/98/NT4/2000 and
> > also it still has in_flac.dll (a plugin for Winamp 2.x). Also 1.2.1
> > is the latest official binaries that don't require SSE2.  So it can
> > be useful for some (very small) group of people.
> 
> Considering a newer version is posted right above 1.2.1 version I assume most 
> traffic is from direct links from a third party to the SourceForge binary. 
> Otherwise most people would be opting for the newer one. My guess is that the 
> majority of people downloading 1.2.1 from SF.net don’t even know there is a 
> newer version and keep using an unsafe version.

Is there a way to get the Referer logs from SourceForge?

> My suggestion would be to keep older versions on the Xiph download site and 
> remove all binaries from SourceForge (perhaps only keep 1.3.2 there). People 
> who specifically need to find older versions can still get it from Xiph while 
> people being sent to the outdated 1.2.1 version from a third party site will 
> need to Google for it and will most likely stumble upon the relevant Xiph 
> page and get the most recent version.

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-Dec.
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