So, did the Subsurface 3.0 announcement start a download frenzy?

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Feb 23, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Lutz Vieweg wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering whether the different efforts to make
> the public aware of Subsurface 3.0 succeeded in sparking a
> download frenzy - Dirk, you probably noticed some spike in
> web-access / download counters?

We have about 400 downloads of the binary packages for Windows and Mac so far - I have no way of counting how many people downloaded the various Linux packages or cloned the repositories.

We had about 4500 visitors to the website since the announcement.

> A number I can contribute is the number of downloads of the
> video tutorial: According to archive.org, the video has
> been downloaded 288 times, so far. (You can find this counter
> in the lower right corner at
> http://archive.org/details/SubsurfaceVideoTutorial - it's
> updated by archive.org automatically about every 48 hours or so.)

I think that's very decent!

> 288 video downloads IMHO is not a bad start, but certainly
> leaves some gap for us to catch up on PSY, whose "Gangnam Style"
> was viewed 1,349,256,013 times during the last 7 months.

> @Dirk: If you could perform some funny dance-moves to some
> mediocre background pop-music, wearing some original outfit
> (the LCA shirt will probably do), I'm sure we can attract
> the ~1.4E+9 views we need in the next 6 months to beat PSY ;-)

Umm. NO.

/D
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