Re: introducing deken trends

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 
> <[email protected]> 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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