Comments on: Growing Popularity for the Psi Jabber Client

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:09:38 +0000

Word of mouth would be big, I’m sure. We also get a lot of hits from Google and Jabber.org.

By: vanushah

vanushah — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:31:37 +0000

But how do they get to know about it? Word of mouth perhaps?

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:54:55 +0000

I’ve added source code stats to the post above from Ohloh.com.

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:53:47 +0000

I’ve added some source code stats to the post that come from http://www.ohloh.net/projects/psi.

By: dion

dion — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:51:52 +0000

What about svn.psi-im.org statistic? Is it available?

By: Dominik

Dominik — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:27:44 +0000

Hi
This is pretty cool! Psi is pretty cool, too! One additional information about downloads, michalj (psi team member? – at least forum moderator) provides nightly builds – many of my colleagues download that versions (http://psi-daisy.uaznia.net/Psi-0.12/). So probably total downloads is much, much more

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:56:53 +0000

There you go. Makes perfect sense to me.

By: darkk

darkk — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:47:04 +0000

The answer is easy: jabber has NO problems with encodings.
Firefox knows seven (!) encodings for russian, and at least 3 of them are still alive and used.

By the way, I don’t count unicode

By: Sander

Sander — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:22:27 +0000

Just one sidenote: I believe the website underwent a big change last year. So that may also explain a part of the difference.

Speaking about traffic stats, the Coccinella website always generates 0GB/month thanks to a bug in the Plesk statistics counter of our hoster (cfr Florian)…not that that is a bad thing…free bandwidth! ;D

By: Sterkrig

Sterkrig — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:57:05 +0000

Let’s see what’d happen after launching Psi 0.12 (-:E

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:08:43 +0000

LOL! Note that I inserted the sentence “excluded .net & .com” above.

By: Petteri

Petteri — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:58:02 +0000

Looking at the country stats, maybe you should change the default language of the site to something else than english.

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:35:29 +0000

It seems that instant messaging is very much a cultural thing. You see ICQ in use in Europe much more so than in the US, for example. Of course there’s Gadu-Gadu which was made in Eastern Europe, that’s very popular over there. Jabber has always had a very high concentration of Eastern European users. I don’t know what drives this but it has always been this way.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:31:34 +0000

What is the eastern European and Russian connection with Jabber?
I know that certain IM services have geographic dominance, I’m just curious on the pick up of Jabber in these regions. Perhaps the knowledge could be used to help market Jabber in other areas.

By: halr9000

halr9000 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:54:07 +0000

True, true. I forgot about those.

By: textshell

textshell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:39:27 +0000

Well, don’t we have the language pack downloads hosted on psi-im.org?
Not that it should matter a lot, they are >> 1500 * 0.3MB * 31
13950MB

Well at least it’s worth a look at the detailed stats.

– Martin