Call for designers for our ports website

[Daniel J. Luke]

Presumably we actually have more complete stats already if we were to aggregate the mirror logs for the distfiles + the binary archives.

If we think having more data is valuable, we could add something to port (maybe display on selfupdate) asking people to opt-in.

> On Jun 13, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> No doubt it caused some tempest.
> 
> I was wrong, homebrew’s published stats say they have 5 million openssl installs this year <https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install/365d/>
> 
> and our analytics say we have 547 <https://ports.macports.org/port/openssl/stats?days=30&days_ago=0>
> 
> And if you think that doesn’t drive everyone’s decision-making extremely powerfully, I would say we are missing the marketing train.
> 
> Here’s their blurb <https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics> about justifying it.
> 
> Again, I know MacPorts is not going to change that (no point now). But from a ‘business’ point of view, it was masterful.

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Daniel J. Luke