Daily downloads in decline

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On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:58:04 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:11:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> Per http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png, the 28-day moving 
>> average of daily dmd downloads is in pronounced decline 
>> following a peak at the 2.067 release. It is possible that the 
>> recent release of Rust 1.0 has caused that, shifting drive-by 
>> experimenters to it.
>
> I don't know that we should over-react to the recent slump, 
> especially since it was presaged by such a large spike.  I'm 
> sure it'll pick back up again as people start watching the 
> Dconf 2015 videos.  Filtering out the noise, the daily download 
> numbers look stable around 1200 for almost the last year.
>
> The real issue is how we take the next jump upwards.  
> Hopefully, mobile support, which only Dan and I are working on 
> right now, can help with that. :)
>
>> 1. It's a big bummer that nothing has happened with chopping 
>> up the videos over the weekend. Right now DConf is three 
>> 6-hour blobs of unstructured footage. John has warned us he 
>> might not have broadband access to do so during his travels. 
>> In retrospect, what we should have done was to immediately 
>> arrange that John gives access to the videos to someone 
>> willing and able to do the postprocessing.
>
> Given the subpar quality of the livestream, I'm not sure we 
> should be highlighting those videos.  I've watched several 
> hours of the livestream and the frequent audio dropouts are 
> very annoying.  What is the plan to put out the better videos 
> recorded by the organizers: put them all out as soon as they're 
> available or stagger their release?
>
> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 18:14:40 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
> wrote:
>> 4. We need to marshal our efforts behind 2.068, and clarify 
>> the big ticket items accomplished. I'm thinking rangification 
>> of Phobos - GC no longer needed for most primitives, and 
>> documented where needed. As much as I want it, ddmd seems to 
>> not be happening for 2.068 because of, simply put, 
>> insufficient resources.
>
> Can you expand on why ddmd is getting delayed?  I, and 
> seemingly many others, were looking forward to ddmd.  I did not 
> see Daniel's talk as it wasn't livestreamed.  Perhaps we can 
> help get ddmd out the door.

Im Curious, is the effort putting more focus towards iOS or 
Android?

Also, it would probably help if the version numbers didnt 
increment so slowly.
Maybe 2.10 for DDMD?