tain.totalcodex.net

Seems to have been downloaded 6 times a day for 8 years straight. Something seems a bit odd about this. I mean 17594 downloads?

JINN on the Tain

Yeah, there are other files that have way more downloads than they probably really have. It would be good to alter the Tain to only count completed downloads.

I think that data isn't being recorded by the system. It's possible that the download counts are inflated by web crawlers (robots) that are scanning the site.

Julio

Only a tiny minority of patch downloaders play the game online. The rest do solo and Jinn is a solo level pack.

Of course, but this is not the reason for the huge download counter or you would notice similar download counts for other plugins. Compare the download counters for Jinn in the "Most Downloads" section on these 2 links that recorded the page on these 2 dates.

March 13, 2011
April 14, 2011

Does anyone know exactly what triggers the software to register a download? I see many such odd numbers around The Tain.

Olong2 wrote:Does anyone know exactly what triggers the software to register a download? I see many such odd numbers around The Tain.

Visiting the URL to download a file triggers it. I don't think it's easy to change the code to detect if a download actually succeeded (especially since some browsers may support pausing and resuming downloads and such...)

However, we may be able to prevent incrementing from web crawlers by either user agent detection or via robots.txt.

EDIT: I've made a change that should prevent web crawlers from incrementing those counts.

people probably think Jinn refers to some other game


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9NFuMiy53o