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Svelte has gone from an average of 400k weekly downloads to 28m within the span of a month - what is going on?

• robin_reala 4y ago
  It’s got to be a misconfigured system that’s repeatedly downloading the package.
  • kinduff 4y ago
    Seems to be the case, here is the Google Trends for comparison https://trends.google.es/trends/explore?q=react,svelte https://trends.google.es/trends/explore?q=react,svelte
  • acqbu 4y ago
    Huh, and supposedly npm doesn't have a way to detect that. Shows it's possible to fake those numbers if you put your mind to it.