dmd downloads

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 6/30/20 4:40 AM, aberba wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 07:38:22 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 03:24:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> FYI I just got around to generate again the plot for the moving 
>>> average of daily downloads and the trend is pretty nice:
>>>
>>> http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png
>>>
>>> (The spike occurred during my talk in China.)
>>
>> Thank you!
>> So the user base of D seams to increase always faster and faster - if 
>> you look at the time for doubling from app. 1000 to 2000 and from 2000 
>> to 4000 you can derive that the growth is stronger then exponatial!
>>
>> If for every download just 10 $cent would be charged, it might gave a 
>> nice funding for DLF....
> 
> In my line of work, I would place a Donate link close to the download 
> button. And many other _appropriate_ places and add that it go a long 
> way to help improve D.
> 
>   Call to action close value provided.

Great idea, I took it up with Mike. Thanks!