Adium stats

biglittledragoon · Post by **biglittledragoon** » Mon May 16, 2005 5:53 pm

Hello,

I am curious.

So, I searched to know a little bit more about the "Adium world". Like how many people use it or things like that.

So, I searched the stats of adiumx.com, it's impressive!

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traff ... adiumx.com

I have three questions.

Why is Adium described as a "Jabber client for Mac OSX"?

Is there a way to know how many times Adium is downloaded? (Evan speaks about 100,000 downloads of Adium X 0.81!!!)

And is there a way to estimate how many people use it? (and LOVE it of course! The contrary is impossible!)

Thanks,

BLD

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Mon May 16, 2005 8:09 pm

80 million page views... but makes me wonder is why now that .8 is released the views are lower then pre .8

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon May 16, 2005 11:43 pm

Wengero wrote:80 million page views... but makes me wonder is why now that .8 is released the views are lower then pre .8

probably because in anticipation of .8 coming out alota people checked the page, now that its out, people are using .8 .

i bet the trend will come back when the .9 stuff gets going.

Post by **evands** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:00 am

The downloads number is from our administration panel for cachefly on the statistics page... so just Adam and I can see that. I do wish we had a way to estimate active users of all versions... not sure how to go about that though!

That's a bit odd that we're described as just a jabber client... the alexa.com site may have found adiumx.com from jabber.org, perhaps?

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:07 am

evands wrote:The downloads number is from our administration panel for cachefly on the statistics page... so just Adam and I can see that. I do wish we had a way to estimate active users of all versions... not sure how to go about that though!

how about making each adium secretly connect to a secret server which counts how many people are active at any given time, maybe for 8.2?

Adam Iser · Post by **Adam Iser** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:30 am

Wengero wrote:
evands wrote:The downloads number is from our administration panel for cachefly on the statistics page... so just Adam and I can see that. I do wish we had a way to estimate active users of all versions... not sure how to go about that though!
how about making each adium secretly connect to a secret server which counts how many people are active at any given time, maybe for 8.2?

I'm sure that would go over well

Post by **evands** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:42 am

Adam Iser wrote:
Wengero wrote:
evands wrote:The downloads number is from our administration panel for cachefly on the statistics page... so just Adam and I can see that. I do wish we had a way to estimate active users of all versions... not sure how to go about that though!
how about making each adium secretly connect to a secret server which counts how many people are active at any given time, maybe for 8.2?
I'm sure that would go over well

I know! We can have a unique registration number for each copy of Adium which enables us to track how many different computers a given copy of Adium is being used on, so we find out how much it's being spread by word-of-mouth!

Post by **The_Tick** » Tue May 17, 2005 2:46 am

We could make a mac virus that downloads Adium onto people's pcs!

Wengero · Post by **Wengero** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:00 am

The_Tick wrote:We could make a mac virus that downloads Adium onto people's pcs!

lol a mac virus

HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAH

wunderwood · Post by **wunderwood** » Tue May 17, 2005 6:36 am

Hooch is crazy. I mean, you guys are crazy.

I have to say those stats are amazing. I guess I should have realized the scale this project has gotten to. WOW!

biglittledragoon · Post by **biglittledragoon** » Tue May 17, 2005 8:02 am

Wengero wrote:
evands wrote:The downloads number is from our administration panel for cachefly on the statistics page... so just Adam and I can see that. I do wish we had a way to estimate active users of all versions... not sure how to go about that though!
how about making each adium secretly connect to a secret server which counts how many people are active at any given time, maybe for 8.2?

More seriously...

I think that the way used by NVu is pretty good.
When you lunch it for the first time, NVu ask you if it can send a ping to their server (there is is a big difference between DL and use an app!), and ask you if you want to donate (when I see the stats, I see how much the server cost...

).

The_Tick wrote:We could make a mac virus that downloads Adium onto people's pcs!

In France, we have an adage that says: "It's give jam to pigs!"

John Don · Post by **John Don** » Tue May 17, 2005 3:48 pm

Adam Iser wrote:
Wengero wrote:
evands wrote:The downloads number is from our administration panel for cachefly on the statistics page... so just Adam and I can see that. I do wish we had a way to estimate active users of all versions... not sure how to go about that though!
how about making each adium secretly connect to a secret server which counts how many people are active at any given time, maybe for 8.2?
I'm sure that would go over well

The time that applications start secretly trying to connect to servers is the time that I block that connection with Little Snitch. :twisted:

jmelloy · Post by **jmelloy** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:23 pm

It'll give us an excuse to get our firewall navigation code up to snuff.