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I really need to automate this somehow, but my latest (conservative) estimate of active users of Flathub is 1.99 million!

It’s likely over 2,000,000 in reality; this is a number of updates delivered to the most popular runtime, org.freedesktop.Platform//23.08, between the 23.08.14 and 23.08.15 releases. This was less than a month (March 18 through April 9) and only counts this runtime; any users running apps that don’t use it are not counted here.

Pretty impressive stuff!

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Sonny
Sonny
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number of very active users!

By SaaS standard "active" means something like "logged in once in the last 6 months" 😃

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Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:
Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:
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@sonny yeah exactly—I don’t think this methodology can give us a precise “monthly active users” metric, but that’s probably the closest equivalent. And it doesn’t account for any users who don’t install updates for each release (e.g. on a computer that’s usually offline or only used once a month or less).
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Jordan Petridis
Jordan Petridis
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Could you get a number on `org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default//23.08`

This runtime extension is used by all the derivative runtimes as well (kde, gnome, etc, so the number should be more complete

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Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:
Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:
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@alatiera this is 100% why we should script this and publicize it better; then at least we could agree on the methodology and numbers!
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Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:
Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:
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yeah I mean could do, I (or someone) would have to actually write a script. So far I’m just doing it all by hand:

• Find the most-used platform in the Flathub stats

• Look at the release numbers/dates of the FreeDesktop SDK

• A little bit of reasoning to pick two recent sequential releases more than a short time apart (e.g. not within days of each other)

• Use the handy third-party stats aggregator (https://klausenbusk.github.io/flathub-stats/#ref=org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default%2F23.08&downloadType=updates) to add the daily updates between the two releases

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Sonny
Sonny
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@alatiera I've been wanting areweflatpakyet too for ages

Number of apps with sandbox holes, missing features, etc

So whatever ends up being used I might reuse

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