.. people always requested this... a lot of coders are used to let their old versions on the site here because they want the count of downloads... aside of the number of installs, the total of downloads could be very useful... we already have the indication of who downloaded the latest version, so we could add that count like " latest version X downloads, Y installs "... THIS is more instructive than the simple X installs that are related to nothing...
The facility to do this has actually existed for almost three years - as part of the re-write of the install system I did in early 2007, I added a count of downloads that is not reset by uploading a new file. That count is not actually displayed anywhere.
Ive looked at the count tonight and strangely enough, its obviously been abused (or something has gone wacky) in a number of threads - for instance I found a couple of mods that had a count that had hit the maximum of 65,535. In fact Ive increased the field size because of this, even though I dont for one second believe that the mods involved should really have a count anything like that size. Still, I might look at adding it to the display.
12-28-2009, 08:57 PM
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