Facebook and Subsurface

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Mon Jul 29 17:37:24 PDT 2019


With Google+ gone and RSS feeds a thing of the past, I wonder how people get updates for software like Subsurface.
For a while I thought it was Facebook - we used to get about 6-7k impressions on our updates and that seemed to be about half of our user number, so that seemed about right.
But the last few posts that I made got barely over a thousand impressions - yet our active user numbers (downloads as well as connections to the cloud storage) aren't stagnating at all, quite the contrary, they keep going up.
We have more than 10k active users of cloud storage at this point (which in itself is interesting as we have only about 8k downloads combined of iOS and Android - so people are using the cloud to just sync between different desktop installations... cool).

So... should I worry about reaching only about a thousand people with our announcements on FB? Or simply shrug and say whatever? I guess the app stores notify people automatically and at least those users who haven't turned off the update check will also get the notification within the next few weeks. So maybe I simply shouldn't care?

/D


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