Re: User statistics.

Phillip Steinbachs wrote:

[..]

>
> wm-user mailing list:  646 members (currently), high back in 2000-2001 
> was
>                        around 700 or so
>
> wm-dev mailing list:  276 members (currently), has remained pretty much
>                       static for the last five years
>
>
> http://windowmaker.org/stats/ shows the web stats for the past 12 
> months. The numbers have dropped somewhat over the last several 
> years.  Back in the day when a new release was worthy of a /. article, 
> the monthly hits were in the 3-4 million range.  

A lot more than I expected..  Not an evaluation of actul users but may 
give an order of magnitude..?

> In this case, the monthly "visits" column represents unique visits to 
> the site and is probably the most accurate measurement of popularity.
>
> Roughly 5000 people have downloaded 0.91.0 via ftp/http since its 
> release, although some of these are duplicate downloads.  Obviously, 
> many more people are still using older versions.
>
> -phillip

Thanks for all the details.


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