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1. Go to http://plugins.netbeans.org/ 2. Sort the table by 'Downloaded' column (descending) You see that of the top 10 downloaded plugins, only 3 work with NetBeans 7.0 or newer, the rest are old and out of date, and often irrelevant. So I don't think the metric of "total downloads during the entire history" is a good metric; I suggest to change it to something like "Downloaded (last 3 monts)" or similar. This would weed out the old crap. Also, is this metric protected against robots? I.e. if I am a module owner and write a robot that clicks on the download button of my plugin 30.000 times, does the download counter detect this?
Honzo, do we use some detection of recurring downloading? And how hard would it be to change "Downloads" sort to "Downloads (last 3 months)"?
Hello, this metric is just very simple stupid counter which increments every time the download button at the plugin is clicked. There is no robot protection, no history. To prevent robots it would be pretty hard (usually bot is cloacked behind the common User-Agent, does not rush on hits etc). To keep history of downloads it would be possible.