Download is a misleadign statistics, as many people will uninstall this crap in a week or so.

Statistics for (semi)automatic updates are more interesting.

Urmas, if you think LibreOffice is crap don't use it. About this feature, I'll now set it as NEEDINFO and I'll reply in a few days.

Thanks Jean.

Regards, 
Paul
(In reply to comment #2)
> Urmas, if you think LibreOffice is crap don't use it. About this feature, I'll
> now set it as NEEDINFO and I'll reply in a few days.

First of all, sorry for the delay in replying I've been overwhelmed with work. I'm also posting a topic on the WWW mailing list so that we can discuss this. 

Actually, I agree with this idea. There are different ways how this can be implemented. One of these is that we add a download counter to the current download page. However, I have another idea that is that we add a new thing to our download page. 

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. In this page, the download begins. I think this is a good idea for LibreOffice too. There we would add the download counter and also a "Donate" section. If I get good feedback from the mailing list, I'll create a sample page to get more valuable feedback. For now, I'll assign this to me. I'll reply in a week with more details on the feedback I receive.

Thanks Jean,

Here is how OpenOffice is doing it: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/

Plus we must state that LibreOffice is distributed with leading Linux Distros like Ubuntu (20 million users) & since it comes bundled with these OS & people don't download it (even though they use it), so the number will be significantly higher.





(In reply to comment #4)
> First of all, sorry for the delay in replying I've been overwhelmed with work.
> I'm also posting a topic on the WWW mailing list so that we can discuss this. 
> 
> Actually, I agree with this idea. There are different ways how this can be
> implemented. One of these is that we add a download counter to the current
> download page. However, I have another idea that is that we add a new thing to
> our download page. 
> 
> 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. In this page, the download begins. I think this is a good idea
> for LibreOffice too. There we would add the download counter and also a
> "Donate" section. If I get good feedback from the mailing list, I'll create a
> sample page to get more valuable feedback. For now, I'll assign this to me.
> I'll reply in a week with more details on the feedback I receive.

This is being discussed on Redmine.

ticket moved to redmine https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/1552