We have a new web feature: detailed app download stats!
You can now visit the Statistics page on the Web UI:
https://apps.fortheusers.org/stats for a detailed day-by-day breakdown of our web and app downloads from users of the App Store.
This can be accessed either from the sidebar, or by clicking on a specific app and choosing "View Details", and allows for pretty graphs like the one below:
Specific graphs can also be linked by copying the URL if you see something interesting:
https://apps.fortheusers.org/stats?...-shell&time=1598646196506:1599855796506:false
The range can be adjusted along the bottom, and new apps can be added or removed at the top of the page. We hope that this feature is a good resource for developers to gauge interest and track trends with how their apps are downloaded. It may also be useful as a tool to see what other people are interested in.
With these changes, the download counts within the app are also finally fixed as well. We're hoping to continue working on more transparent features like this so that developers don't view HBAS as such a black box, and can instead see it as a useful platform to showcase their app on.
If you are a developer, you are likely also interested in seeing your Github Releases download stats and adding them to the HBAS numbers. One website to view Github downloads on is here:
https://somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/
Source code for our web frontend is available here under the GPLv3 license:
https://gitlab.com/4TU/hbas-frontend