Sounds like a pretty reasonable thing to me. Anyone interested in whipping up a patch to store application family/version views? How to count the non-generated page views?
Chris On Saturday 19 November 2005 4:39 pm, Scott Ritchie wrote: > This was an idea we discussed in IRC for a short bit, and I think it > would be good to bring it up here. > > Essentially, if the AppDB displayed the number of page views each app > got it would go a long way towards estimating the demand for particular > applications, whether they work or not. It seems fair to say that > someone looking an app up in the AppDB either wants to run it in Wine or > wants to know if it's doable should he switch to Wine. > > Coincidentally, this also helps solve the voting problem - since votes > for gold apps are supposed to be replaced with votes for apps that work > should be done on, we now have a mechanism to sort the Gold list other > than by votes. Sorting the gold list by page views would also greatly > help navigation from the front page of the AppDB, as it would place the > most popular applications at the top. > > Then again, maybe there's something I've overlooked. > > Thoughts? > -Scott Ritchie