alt Hacker NewsThe number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless.
Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.
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It's the tried and true headline method of "event 2 happened after event 1", implying a causal effect between the two, despite no evidence of such effect existing. Technically the headline is correct, in the same way that "Canada Tariffs $20b in US Goods After Amazon Plane Crash" is also correct.
But still nice to hear. Really timely, too, since my 83-year-old mom called me the other day to help her E-mail a document she prepared in LibreOffice. I installed it on her (seldom-used) computer years ago. So I talked her through E-mailing it with Thunderbird.
And I say "talked," because the jagoffs at Microsoft REMOVED Remote Assistance from every version of Windows used by people who are likely to need it. And MS Office is trash; the more people abandon it the better.
If I can get my mom on Linux... hey now!
From Libre’s announcement (linked in the article):
“This is the highest number of downloads in the first week of any LibreOffice release!”
Congratulation to your new unix timestamp record! (and yes, you too, nth reader!)
Yes, here's the graph of weekly downloads: https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads#week,version The 26.8 peak is within the normal range of week-to-week variation.
Isn't it also a dep of some AI tools? Or maybe they use their own binary
I feel this every time the stock market hits a new “all time high”
is the trend of increasing weekly downloads not itself meaningful?
See also, every new iPhone/Pixel being the best they've ever release. You'd hope so!
What? A Unix timestamp literally cannot ever be lower. Its a completely assinine comparison isn't it?
This is comparative.
Absolute number of downloads inevitably goes up. Weekly downloads number doesn't.