Should the AppDB make public the number of unique page views each app gets?

[Scott Ritchie]

This was an idea we discussed in IRC for a short bit, and I think it
would be good to bring it up here.

Essentially, if the AppDB displayed the number of page views each app
got it would go a long way towards estimating the demand for particular
applications, whether they work or not.  It seems fair to say that
someone looking an app up in the AppDB either wants to run it in Wine or
wants to know if it's doable should he switch to Wine.

Coincidentally, this also helps solve the voting problem - since votes
for gold apps are supposed to be replaced with votes for apps that work
should be done on, we now have a mechanism to sort the Gold list other
than by votes.  Sorting the gold list by page views would also greatly
help navigation from the front page of the AppDB, as it would place the
most popular applications at the top.

Then again, maybe there's something I've overlooked.

Thoughts?
-Scott Ritchie

[Dustin Navea]

Scott Ritchie wrote:
> This was an idea we discussed in IRC for a short bit, and I think it
> would be good to bring it up here.
>
> Essentially, if the AppDB displayed the number of page views each app
> got it would go a long way towards estimating the demand for particular
> applications, whether they work or not.  It seems fair to say that
> someone looking an app up in the AppDB either wants to run it in Wine or
> wants to know if it's doable should he switch to Wine.
>
> Coincidentally, this also helps solve the voting problem - since votes
> for gold apps are supposed to be replaced with votes for apps that work
> should be done on, we now have a mechanism to sort the Gold list other
> than by votes.  Sorting the gold list by page views would also greatly
> help navigation from the front page of the AppDB, as it would place the
> most popular applications at the top.
>
> Then again, maybe there's something I've overlooked.
>
> Thoughts?
> -Scott Ritchie

Vote for!

Another thing I have been pondering is a Platinum list added to the DB, 
where apps that work 100% dont have any debug messages on the console as 
well..  Yes, there are a few apps that actually meet this criteria, and 
no I'm not talking about minesweeper, or solitaire either..

While we are on the subject of the lists, why arent there any links on 
the sidebar of the DB to the lists?  That would be a nice thing as well....

Dustin

[Randall Walls]

Sidebar? There is a link to the app db on the left hand side of the 
winehq.org page, is this what you were referring to?

I too like the idea of using unique page visits as a measure of an apps 
popularity, but I think that if possible it should be used in 
conjunction with the traditional voting system, each weighing a certain 
portion towards an apps popularity.

Randall Walls

Dustin Navea wrote:
> Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > This was an idea we discussed in IRC for a short bit, and I think it
> > would be good to bring it up here.
> >
> > Essentially, if the AppDB displayed ........

.....
> > applications at the top.
> >
> > Then again, maybe there's something I've overlooked.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > -Scott Ritchie
>
> Vote for!
>
> Another thing I have been pondering is a Platinum list added to the 
> DB, where apps that work 100% dont have any debug messages on the 
> console as well..  Yes, there are a few apps that actually meet this 
> criteria, and no I'm not talking about minesweeper, or solitaire either..
>
> While we are on the subject of the lists, why arent there any links on 
> the sidebar of the DB to the lists?  That would be a nice thing as 
> well....
>
> Dustin

Should the AppDB make public the number of unique page views each app gets?

[Chris Morgan]

Sounds like a pretty reasonable thing to me.  Anyone interested in whipping up 
a patch to store application family/version views?  How to count the 
non-generated page views?

Chris


On Saturday 19 November 2005 4:39 pm, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> This was an idea we discussed in IRC for a short bit, and I think it
> would be good to bring it up here.
>
> Essentially, if the AppDB displayed the number of page views each app
> got it would go a long way towards estimating the demand for particular
> applications, whether they work or not.  It seems fair to say that
> someone looking an app up in the AppDB either wants to run it in Wine or
> wants to know if it's doable should he switch to Wine.
>
> Coincidentally, this also helps solve the voting problem - since votes
> for gold apps are supposed to be replaced with votes for apps that work
> should be done on, we now have a mechanism to sort the Gold list other
> than by votes.  Sorting the gold list by page views would also greatly
> help navigation from the front page of the AppDB, as it would place the
> most popular applications at the top.
>
> Then again, maybe there's something I've overlooked.
>
> Thoughts?
> -Scott Ritchie