Re: [boost] Web site visits and downloads

From: Chris Peterson (cop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-16 18:49:00

Perhaps the Boost web site should add a gallery of commercial and
non-commercial C++ projects that are using the Boost libraries. I think it
might reduce new adopters' [unfounded] fears that the library might not be
adequately tested or maintained. Plus I think it could bolster Boost
developers' enthusiasm to know their contributions are helping others.  :-)

chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 12:01 PM
Subject: [boost] Web site visits and downloads

> Around the first of the year, www.boost.org was being visited by about
> 1,500 people a week.  The boost_all files were being downloaded around 250
> times a week.
>
> Then we switched hosts, and stopped getting the weekly visit reports; the
> new host required a problematic setup I never go around to completing.  A
> couple of weeks ago I finally completed the setup, and am now getting
> reports again.
>
> While last week obviously may have been totally atypical, the numbers are
> still interesting.  Unique site visitors a week is now around
> 4,600.  Downloads of boost_all.zip and boost_all.tar.gz total close to
> 2,000.
>
> While I don't put a lot of faith in the specific numbers, the trend is
> still clear.  More and more programmers are finding Boost, and downloading
> the libraries.  That can't be just happenstance; people must actually be
> using our stuff and telling others about Boost:-)
>
> --Beman
>
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