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