To put things in perspective, I've asked Ton on IRC. The last official numbers for downloads on blender.org are from 2008-2009, so it should have gone significantly up by now.
It was 3.4M downloads over 12 months. Recently, we typically get a quarter of a million in the week of a release. And that's for the main mirror only. Martin --- On Sun, 4/17/11, Jass <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jass <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Why has "CTRL y" been removed from blender ? > To: "bf-blender developers" <[email protected]> > Received: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 10:57 AM > I can second this with some > statistics from the Machinimatrix. > All our users are effectively from the Metaverse and we see > that many of > them are "non professional" (whatever that means) > end-users: > > - 500 downloads/month of our customized binary blender-2.49 > distribution > - 10000 unique users per month > - 30000 page hits per month. > - 7500 Video downloads per month (basic 3D-content > creation) > > I have no comparison so i do not know if this is just > peanuts or > significant numbers. I am curious about the statistics from > blender. > > Cheers, > Gaia > > Am 17.04.2011 16:16, schrieb Jim Williams: > > I'm not inclined to see Maya et. al. as THE > MARKET. I think > > the 3D virtual reality environments are probably > already a larger > > market for Blender, if a currently largely invisible > one. > > > > Certainly, if Blender is to ever have a really huge > user base > > it will be in the Metaverse. This is the place > where even > > end-users would have some sort of interest in using a > 3D > > modelling/animation program and have some sort of > skill > > in moving about in three dimensions. All the > other environments > > are mass media with very small actual user > communities. > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Jass<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> As a tutorial maker and i have to stick with the > defaults because that is > >> the only reliable way to go. (Forcing users to > install a customized > >> interface > >> to rework the tutorials would be very wrong in my > opinion) I agree that > >> aligning blender to other tools in the same market > is a good decision. > >> > >> On the other hand (as already mentioned before) > both versions of redo > >> assignment seem to be "commonly used" and its not > just a difference > >> in the target market but also a difference in the > operating system. > >> For example OSX seems to not support ctrl+y > at all (even not on firefox). > >> > >> I still would prefer to see ctrl+y added to the > defaults. But if there > >> is no chance > >> to get both standards supported with blender then > keeping ctrl+shift+z as > >> the default seems the best choice to me. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Gaia > >> > >> > >> Am 17.04.2011 10:32, schrieb Matt Ebb: > >>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Damir > Prebeg<[email protected]> > wrote: > >>>> Again, as I've said, CTRL+SHIFT+Z is > perfect for standard US keyboard > >>>> users. For the rest of us (or at least > users of QWERTZ) it's not. But > >>>> according your responses I see that we'll > have to change that > >>>> individually. > >>> No shortcut organisation will be ergonomic for > all keyboard layouts - > >>> there will always be someone who finds it > inconvenient. As a lowest > >>> common denominator blender is designed for use > with a US keyboard - > >>> for others, that's precisely what having > customisable shortcut keys is > >>> for. > >>> > >>> Matt > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> Bf-committers mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bf-committers mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
