This seems to reflect the poll on skinning being on the rise

The rate in which a section gets more stuff is a factor of how hard it is to create something X the number of users using it.

In skins, there's a third factory and that is originality. Technically speaking (for a statistics point of view) WindowBlinds skinning SHOULD be slowing down, not increasing because people tend to make skins for themselves because no one elese has a skin available to them. I don't make skins often because there are plenty out there for me to choose from and there are people so good at skinning that my talent is dwarfed. But I made most of the first two dozen or so WindowBlinds skins (evne though they were terrible).

You can see that with Winamp, the # of new skins has declined per user. Same I'm sure has happened for WindowBlinds too. Just that there are so many new users getting into skinning that it has offset that.

There was a really good skinning program called Chroma a few years back. I always said that if it could just get 200 to 300 decent skins it would be set. But it never got that critical mass.

You can see this with msstyles already. The # of new skins made for it has drastically fallen off. For awhile, it was getting like a dozen new skins PER DAY. Now it falls behind WindowBlinds on some days which is remarkable considering the relatively low number of them available and ease of making them.