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I don't think it's a useless metric and it's one I use myself, but it can also be gamed pretty easily. So the more people making decisions based on downloads, t
by michaelmior 2y ago
I don't think it's a useless metric and it's one I use myself, but it can also be gamed pretty easily. So the more people making decisions based on downloads, the higher the likelihood of bots generating downloads just to juice the stats.
- ozim 2y agoWell it is useful as first level filter just like GH stars. If it has no downloads/stars you don’t care. If it has big amount let’s take time checking it out. Fun part starts when checking out part is limited to some minimum and goes to prod because it solves something. Where people might not even know if that library is any good at all.