Ken wrote:

> 
> Jim Charter wrote:
> 
> 
>>Once a post on these groups mentioned the number of downloads POV gets
>>per month.  It was a very impressive figure.  Would there be any harm in
>>advertising it on the homepage?
> 
> 
> Collecting and compiling the data takes time and there are other things more
> pressing right now. However...
> 
> If I am reading the www server stats correctly, the Windows version had around
> 16,933 downloads in the month of November alone. This doesn't take into account
> the number of people who downloaded it more than once, had a dropped carrier and
> had to start over, or people who intentionally or accidentally clicked the link
> and decided not to finish the download for what ever reason. That is simply the
> number of hits on the download link. Getting accurate individual download numbers
> is intrinsically problematic and in no way fool proof.
> 
Oh sure, but still, could that much interest each month be generated by 
a dead or invalid product?  Like I said, I found it impressive, but 
maybe I am easily impressed ;-)  If only 1% of the hits represent valid 
new interest, I am still impressed.  It suggests to me that there is a 
whole range of ways POV is being used that I can't even imagine.  I 
wonder what the download hits on the Blender site total per month.  I am 
sure its heating up now they went gpl, still it would be interesting to 
know.

Anyway, guys like me are safe to toss around odd ball ideas because 
there are guys like you who think it through more clearly.  Thanks for 
looking into it.

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