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Wow. I haven't been paying all too much attention to the Sourceforge stats in quite some time now.

We've been having some update site problems with the plugin. The box it's on has been unstable/non-responsive lately. The heavy majority of our traffic comes through the update site - It's all our users querying and dowloading new plugin versions (production, integration and nightly/continuous builds). The guy who lent us the box (John Mason-Shackelford, thanks!) posted some stats that blew me away. We're doing 70Gb a month now, and it's increasing at a rate of 15Gb/month. That's getting up there.

But those numbers didn't have the historical context that the SF.net stats give us, so I wasn't sure of what those numbers really meant. We can see our SF stats from day one of the project - the numbers are rather impressive, but you also have to consider that the bandwidth is way off (all the real heavy downloads are on the update site). But it gives a nice illustration of the growth in interest in the project and the recent explosion of downloads.

The question is: what prompted this sudden explosion in interest, and have we been able to retain the users?