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Russian Download Spike

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:12 pm
by Geoff the Medio
Does anyone who reads Russian game-related websites know what linked to FreeOrion around April 5 2012?

There were about 25000 downloads from Russia over 4 days after that:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeori ... 2012-04-11

Re: Russian Download Spike

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:18 pm
by Bigjoe5
It seems rather suspicious that they were all using Linux, don't you think? Or is that common in Russia?

Re: Russian Download Spike

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 7:46 pm
by Geoff the Medio
Bigjoe5 wrote:...they were all using Linux...
Why do you say that? That graph is for v0.4 installers downloads, which includes only Windows and OSX versions, and all but about 150 of them are downloads of the Windows version.

Re: Russian Download Spike

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:31 am
by Bigjoe5
Geoff the Medio wrote:
Bigjoe5 wrote:...they were all using Linux...
Why do you say that? That graph is for v0.4 installers downloads, which includes only Windows and OSX versions, and all but about 150 of them are downloads of the Windows version.
On the right, right underneath "Top Country: Russia", it says "Top OS: Other", where other is opposed to Windows, OS X, and Unknown.

Re: Russian Download Spike

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:38 am
by Geoff the Medio
Clicking on that box goes to another page with the details. Most is "Unknown", and "Linux" is just 48 of the downloads.

Re: Russian Download Spike

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 2:37 pm
by Bigjoe5
Geoff the Medio wrote:Clicking on that box goes to another page with the details. Most is "Unknown", and "Linux" is just 48 of the downloads.
Whoops. I definitely read that pie chart wrong the first time I looked at it... :oops:

Re: Russian Download Spike

Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:06 pm
by eleazar
It is pretty remarkable considering in the last six years we've been holding steady at 3 to7 thousand downloads a month.