Re: [libreoffice-website] A fix for Bug #50577

Hi Jean, *,

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jean Spiteri
<beimaginativeegroup@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have also posted this to the bug report page. Please leave your feedback.
> The bug is about adding a download counter to the download page. This is my
> reply:

Hmm. Download counter is a tricky thing. How do you count the
downloads is the first one.
* only count full installsets
* also count languagepacks and help

* only count clicks from the curently viewed website (i.e. separate
for each language)
* count all nl-pages combined (but how to deal with nl-projects that
either add direct links or use old-style download page, etc)

* what do do with different versions? Throw everything into one big
counter or count them separately.

Not to mention that a download counter that counts website clicks will
always underestimate the downloads since news-portals usually add
direct download links instead of pointing to the download page, at
least the non-english ones.

> If you try to download Firefox (as of August 2012), when you click the
> "Download" button you get redirected to a Thanks page which also includes a
> newsletter form.

The problem with redirecting is that you don't know whether that
person will want to download the languagepack and/or helppack in
addition.

So whatever additional page is redirected to, that other page still
needs to provide the additional downloads.

What might be possible is to fade away the button that was clicked on
and replace it with a "consider to donate" button or similar.

ciao
Christian

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