I am so happy with these hacked pages on my forum.
http://gimplearn.net/pop_downloads.php

It's a quick way for new users to see popular downloads of scripts, tutorials or resource files (that aren't images) that they might be interested in.

If a user is brand new to gimp forums, they might be like oh i wonder what's downloaded the most maybe i'll try those and see.

You can quickly access one of these pages by clicking on links on top of forum (shown highlighted).


It defaults to show only top 100, but if you scroll down to bottom and click on "View all (if more than 100 results), It'll show you all possible results.

looks very useful - i can see at a glance that there's lots of tutorials i haven't come across before.

Thanks anmal.

and also a page to show top 500 most popular topics http://gimplearn.net/pop_topics.php

Of course with popular list, we have to have an unpopular list as well.
Who knows someone might be like hey I wonder why that one topic doesn't have enough attention...and give it some hehe

Thanks Wallace.

Some at the bottom of the list are just zipped version of the tutorial that appears in full in a thread....

yeah, they are. I just show all downloads of files that aren't images... they might be zipped tutorials, zipped scripts or just zipped resources.
Then I have another page that shows images.
I guess a page for non-images
and page for images..
oh a page for topics.

I like the lists, they are easy to scan when you are looking for something specific.

Yeah I just changed it to show only top 100 by default.

Then at the very bottom, you can click on "View all(if more than 100 results)" then it'll list everything it can an exhausted list if you really want to list it all and then use the Ctrl F to search for keywords or whatever.

Hi Trandoductin,

Please change the title of the post as it doesn't reflect the true contents of the page.

I don't know how you created this list (manually or with the help of some script) but it is really a 'handy index'. 'Search' option produces a lot of pages for finding required information and this is often wastage of time.

I have downloaded so many gimp scripts and plugins that it is impossible for me to remember even a fraction of them. Organizing them is another problem for me on different DVDs.

I have not gone through all of them but last one 'Apple' script in the 100 most popular downloads is new to me and is wonderful.

Thanks for hard-work.

Excellent idea! That list will come in very handy.

Change the title of what post? This one? Okay, I changed to title to say "Most Popular/Unpopular Topics/Downloads/Images Pages on my forum" because that's what these pages are.
I also uploaded a screenshot of where you can find these handy links to these 6 pages (in first post).


Thanks racer-x. Glad you find it handy. I hope it attract new users like they'd be brand new to GIMP and if they see most popular list, they might decide to try it and open themselves up to the world of GIMP

Sometimes DLs are heavily dependent on age of the post.
So being such a nerd when it comes to percentages.
I created this page: https://www.gimplearn.net/pop_dlv.php
It lists in order number of DLs/Topic_views... So a new post might have a chance on top too.
To me it represents real interest because it's a ratio of DLs/Views.

Like for example Grachaen's script is brand new but he's already in 2nd place because the percentage of people who downloaded vs people who viewed is high. Way to go 3D Golden Beauty effect.


PS: But it seems nothing beats OMG Tutorial Chisel or Carve effect tutorial with a 37%.

New page that has to do with post Likes.
https://www.gimplearn.net/pop_likes.php

The names of the links were getting long so I abbreviated them.
People can hover over the links and see what they are exactly, after once or twice people should know what the abbreviations stand for.

Added a live Google 3D pie chart of members composition by countries.
https://www.gimplearn.net/mcc.php
Link can also be found at bottom of every page, under "Members composition".

Downloads Composition by Type (either free downloads from non members or members who don't have enough points, or GLP downloads from members who have enough points).
This graph is good in revealing the fact that most downloads are free downloads from random lurkers .

View live chart here => Download Composition by Type
This chart starts collecting data on June 8, 2017.