dmd downloads

[bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 at 13:56:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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!

Here's the Ubuntu download page for reference:
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop/thank-you?version=20.04&architecture=amd64