Abi 2.4.5 Feedback and Debriefing
Since its release on July 9, 2006 (11 days ago - and no updated Mac OS X build yet…), the fifth bugfix release of its series, AbiWord 2.4.5 has been downloaded over 80,000 times.
About 72,000 of those downloads were for Windows. Of those Windows downloads, over 15% (11255 downloads) also got the Import/Export plugins. Over 15% of Windows downloaders (but slightly fewer than the import/export plugins rate - 11080) got the Tools plugins to go along with their new version of AbiWord.
About 8% of total downloads are source (either .tar.gz or .bz2).
Since the beginning of the month, 3815 confused people have downloaded 2.4.1 for Windows. Perhaps they are unaware that our forward and backward compatibility are stellar, and especially so within release series.
The unofficial award for highest referring release notice goes to this site in Taiwan - referred 1836 visitors. Runners up include a site in russian and this review of AbiWord which actually looks more like it was pulled from some AbiSource document, and also features the never-used D’Andrada splash screen.
Digg and the Unknown Freeware Apps article sent us more than any single 2.4.5 release announcement, however - 2034 direct links from that article came to AbiSource.com
Some 907 people arrived at AbiSource.com via the Changelog for 2.4.5 (indicating that they came from another site’s release notice that was detailed enough to link right to the Changelog)
Since the beginning of the month, over 613 gigabytes of AbiWord installers have been transferred. I believe thanks are in order for University of Twente who kindly host our server. Thanks so much for your support! Congratulations, everyone, on a great 2.4.5 release! Just imagine what the future releases have in store…
Just a sample of end-user pleasure thanks to AbiWord - http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2716#comment-41424
Rock on, ants!
(Figures are approximate and do not include downloads through distributors or other third-party sites, updated as of about 20-Jul-2006 04:41 CEST)
on July 20th, 2006 at 9:42 am
Is there any sort of breakdown available on the Win32 downloads (what version of Windows, for example)? Not sure if that gets reported in the user agent or not.