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Traffic out of control!

February 5, 2002 12:00:46 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Last few weeks traffic here sure seems to be really heavy. Now have to have 1500 downloads just to make it into the top 10 skin authors. Adni has 14,000 per day and we don't even make a notice! Remember when Alexandrie got 5000 downloads and it caused posts to be written? Now someone's getting over 10,000 downloads per day and it's no big deal.

Do you think this is due to WinXP's release or just busier in the Winter or something else?
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AJCrowley
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Reply #1 February 5, 2002 1:14:09 AM
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I think it's due to a mixture of things. The release of Windows XP will certainly have opened more peoples' eyes to the world of skinning, and WindowBlinds being the official Microsoft approved solution for skinning XP has given Stardock some pretty decent exposure. Coupled with the increased exposure and awareness of users in general, WB has got to be a lot faster and more stable in the past few months. Once you've got someone in the door, it's hard not to get hooked on skinning. I liked Gnome over Windows mainly for the fact it was skinnable, unfortunately, it wasn't much use to me outside of that, so finding out that Windows was indeed skinnable was a pleasant surprise.

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Reply #2 February 5, 2002 1:30:23 AM
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Technically February should be less busy than January. I think we'll actually see a net drop this month over last Month (Dec/Jan are busiest Internet months). At some point, we'll have to level off either due to limits on hardware or just limits in the market.

Last month had nearly 900,000 unique individuals. That's just a crazy amount of uniques. I wish more of that translated into message board activity. Clearly the download levels show what people are doing.
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Reply #3 February 5, 2002 2:53:52 AM
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Tandis - you are absolutely right to mention the adni download situation!
That is an extraordinary amount of d/l's and to have that EVERY day is a wonderful achievement by a very talented artist.
Many congratulations, adni
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Reply #4 February 5, 2002 5:47:43 AM
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Frogboy: send your interactivity over to deviantART
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Reply #5 February 5, 2002 7:34:21 AM
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What? DevArt needs more people?
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Reply #6 February 5, 2002 7:59:02 AM
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Crae...jark is running a Soylent Green outlet...he always needs more people...
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Reply #7 February 5, 2002 8:13:49 AM
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Hmm, how's the pay?
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Reply #8 February 5, 2002 12:34:29 PM
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. Yea, dA posts and news items get hundreds of responses while a front page news item here might only get 5.

I feel so....used!
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Reply #9 February 6, 2002 10:18:48 AM
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we just need more visitors like me

after all, on a good day 5 consecutive posts from me is a light thread visit
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Reply #10 February 6, 2002 3:07:31 PM
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I agree Tandis....... he is even being over looked in here too C O N G R T S to ADNi18 and keep up the g r e a t work
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Reply #11 February 6, 2002 6:02:08 PM
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Thank you very much Valhalla and chichigirl46
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