One possible solution could be to only show the download statistics to puredata.info members (= people who upload to Deken)
On 26.08.2025 21:46, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
Em seg., 25 de ago. de 2025 às 05:58, Chris McCormick chris@mccormick.cx escreveu:
> but anyhow: no i had no plans to publish statistics about the search > terms and downloads. > most likely because for me this has a "(a)social media" smell, where > software contributions get "ranked", making developers of popular > packages "better" than those of niche packages. Yes, agree, that's gross.
Well, it is, but it looks like it's also a narrow perspective that doesn't necessarily dominates. I'll just say, I'd love to have access to the same statistics for my packages just so I get a good clear data on what's going on. Like, are people in China using my stuff? That's cool, maybe I'll try and connect with them. You know, whatever... Many libraries are from the extended libraries, are people still relying on them to keep some old patches alive? Are people being able to follow and adopt new stuff?
We got a good picture on "all externals", but I bet developers would like to see what's really the case for specific packages... and that is a concern that comes before comparing between each other to see "who wins the most number of likes content".
cheers
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