(Can't resist: "statistics are like bikinis -- what they reveal is interesting, what they cover up is crucial")

IIUC you have to be a registered PAUSE user and also logged into MetaCPAN as that user in order to ++ a distro. Much more illuminating would be installation counts. That would be difficult, if not impossible to measure accurately, but if Miyagawa updated cpanm to track distros installed, as he did with Perl versions, those would useful numbers ... and tallying download requests from a few busy CPAN mirrors over some period of time would also be interesting. But a number that excludes 99% of potential users and then only counts those who bother to "like" the package, seems of only very slight value imho. (Personally I've always used the ++ thing to see if people whose opinion I respect have "liked" the package.)

Update: I am blind, see hippo's comment below. You don't have to be a PAUSE user. But you do have to have a MetaCPAN account and be signed in, and choose to add he module to your "Favorites" using the little orange button on the opposite side of the page from the list of ++ers ... so I mostly stand by what I said ;-)


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