# Could this be possible?
**URL:** https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706
**Category:** Pling.com - Libre Publishing
**Created:** [May 28, 2019, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706 "2019-05-28T05:12:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@themaggot](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/themaggot)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706/1 "2019-05-28T05:12:31Z")
Today I’ve noticed a crazy number of downloads for a look-and-feel theme (about 500 per hour!). I mean, I know there are very popular products but I’ve never seen that average of downloads even in them, at this time it has 7k+
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### Author:  [@antechdesigns](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/antechdesigns)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706/2 "2019-05-28T07:06:25Z")
well he’s lucky, my product downloads don’t even get registered, I keep telling them there is something seriously wrong with the system but won’t acknowledge me.
> [@Rating System](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/rating-system/17683):
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> There is something seriously wrong with the rating system, for instance this is a screenshot of ‘Distros’ by ‘rating’: For instance you see above at number one a spammer, its just been uploaded, has no files (no downloads) and yet it gets the most exposure? At number two you see a Distro from 2009 has 79 downloads, I would not advise anyone to install that on any PC by the way!! At number 3 another distro that has 129 downloads which has been recently updated, and which is pro…
> [@Actual Payout not Matching Downloads](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/actual-payout-not-matching-downloads/17701):
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> Seems to be something up with my distros & screenshots not being registered correctly. I did notice yesterday when I uploaded a new ISO it would not let me edit it again until i logged out and back in again, if that helps debugging wink Thanks Ant
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### Author:  [@daniruiz06](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/daniruiz06)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 7:37am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706/3 "2019-05-28T07:37:19Z")
I think you are talking about this theme [https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1226052/](https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1226052/). He already
posted an issue [The “downloads today” counter details decrease](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/the-downloads-today-counter-details-decrease/17685) when with no reason he’s theme achieved 1700 downloads and after 2 days it had less than 100. Today it has 8500???
I think all previous weird download changes were due to the new rating system. But downloads are now getting more stable again, and having more than 2000 downloads is really difficult, so 8500? 😆 what?
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### Author:  [@Rokin](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/Rokin)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706/4 "2019-05-28T09:44:51Z")
hi, I am the author of the theme,
As daniruiz06 said, I had already posted a problem regarding the number of downloads that seemed extravagant.
This is a theme that I have not updated for a long time and I do not realy know the average of “normal” daily downloads, because its number varies a lot from one day to another, as you can see.
Although I’d like to hope it’s just a success, the figure seems pretty crazy compared to other products for me too
I can only do speculate and i only able to see the download counter like you and it’s the opendesktop team who are able to check in detail what’s going on behind it.
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### Author:  [@themaggot](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/themaggot)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706/5 "2019-05-28T16:52:18Z")
The issue that you describe in [The "downloads today" counter details decrease](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/the-downloads-today-counter-details-decrease/17685) I’ve only seen it with two products, yours and another one, so I just checked the metadata files and found that both add the look-and-feel theme itself as a dependency:
So, maybe the “issue” could be related to that?
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### Author:  [@Rokin](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/Rokin)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2019, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706/6 "2019-05-28T18:19:05Z")
I just deleted it and updated the new tar.gz file on Opendesktop to try.
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### Author:  [@opendesktop](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/opendesktop)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2019, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706/7 "2019-05-29T14:16:23Z")
Thanks for reporting the issue.
> [@themaggot](#):
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> I’ve only seen it with two products, yours and another one, so I just checked the metadata files and found that both add the look-and-feel theme itself as a dependency:
Good find!
We are looking into this from server side too.
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### Author:  [@rvs75](https://forum.opendesktop.org/u/rvs75)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.org/t/could-this-be-possible/17706/8 "2019-06-04T08:40:47Z")
Hi Rokin,
thanks you for your message. The number of downloads should be fixed now. We have cleaned up the multiple downloads from the same action.
The OpenDesktop Team