Comments on: Any experts on web stats out there?

By: frank mansell

frank mansell — Mon, 01 May 2006 15:41:07 +0000

when i tried to open the file from where i saved it,i got an error message.but when i opened it with the mozillas download manager,all went well….i can’t help other than report this so that you can use the info

By: Nicholas Reville

Nicholas Reville — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:01:12 +0000

we’ve just made some changes to the download page that should make things work better in internet explorer… is this working for everyone now?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:46:32 +0000

Speaking from my personal experiance downloading your player my Internet Explorer took 3 attempts to download the file. The first 2 download attempts lasted about a second (downloading no more than a few Kilobits) and then popped up the ‘download complete’ msg. Of course the download was not complete so it took a few trys to actually get it to start downloading. This is something I’ve noted before with IE.

By: katie

katie — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:00:00 +0000

What I think it has to do with is that the download is much larger than people expect, possibly/probably combined with a large number of Mac Firefox/Mozilla/etc. users of your site.

You don’t say how large the download is on the download link, and most downloads of this sort, particularly PHP systems, are far smaller than your file, since you include the python and bittorrent stuff. Personally, on OS X Firefox, I attempted to unzip the file at least twice – getting premature EOFs – before bothering to open up the Download Manager and notice it was still going.

My guess is that if you posted the size of the download, you’d see a lot less of it.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 05:31:22 +0000

I am not an expert downloader. I hit Run, not Save, to download, and stopped it as soon as I realised my error. So you’ll most likely get a ‘false’ 206 reading from me. regards, Robbie, Colchester, UK

By: M Schultz

M Schultz — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:18:15 +0000

I find your website difficult to use. Some instruction would be useful. What do all the colored numbers in the left column mean? There is no contact on the home page.

M Schultz

By: Richard Walston

Richard Walston — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 06:50:16 +0000

I think a lot of people start downloading then cancel. Then restart again it could be as sinple as that.

By: Pete Holmes

Pete Holmes — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:52:22 +0000

I saw the same thing similar to one of the comments above. Went to download the update, but IE bailed out about halfway, and I had to start again.

By: Thomas Valen

Thomas Valen — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:30:46 +0000

Ah, I see. Thanks for the update!
Of course sufficient testing is vital, good thing You’re taking all these precautions. I hope everything goes well and we (as I am sure there are many users or potential users waiting) will be able to download the new version soon.

Man, I’m excited, from all I’ve seen and heard people like Leo Laporte say about Democracy, it’s one fine program. It’s Christmas time all over again…

Thanks for all the work You’re putting into it!

By: Nicholas Reville

Nicholas Reville — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:35:51 +0000

Hi Thomas, we are right on track with 0.8.2, but we don’t want to rush it out. We hope to have a release in the middle of this week, but it depends on how testing goes.