I presume do some misguided popularity ranking like pypi does, by counting the
number of downloads.
It works terribly because large organizations that actually download it many
times will set up internal mirrors, so there is no chance for the value to
have any meaning.
Also on pypi and similar there's an incentive to just download the files many
times to increase the popularity (I provide a very nice tool to do that
without consuming too much bandwidth, on my codeberg).
Plus of course, how would we even aggregate all the download counts from all
the mirrors?
Best
--
Salvo Tomaselli
"Io non mi sento obbligato a credere che lo stesso Dio che ci ha dotato di
senso, ragione ed intelletto intendesse che noi ne facessimo a meno."
-- Galileo Galilei
https://ltworf.codeberg.page/
