[metrics-team] Looking for information on the number of Tor Browser downloads per language

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 30/07/16 06:53, Nima Fatemi wrote:
> Karsten Loesing:
>> On 26/07/16 16:52, isabela wrote:

Thanks for sharing that pad, Isabela!  Glad you can make use of these
numbers.

>>> Thank you Karsten! I am a little surprised to not see any LTR 
>>> language (Arabic or Farsi) but this is what I was looking for!
>> 
>> Same here.  Arabic is 13th, Farsi is 16th (or last) by downloads
>> in the sample I looked at.
> 
> 1- I'm guessing you took this sample from dist.tpo? In that case I 
> wouldn't be surprise, since that address is blocked to Farsi
> speaking users anyways. We should compare these with gettor stats.

Sounds reasonable.  We don't have GetTor stats available and will for
sure not have them by the deadline, but maybe mention something along
the three lines above in the proposal.

> 2- Farsi version of Tor Browser makes everything RTL (including URL
> bar) and that's kind of a deal breaker for many users.

Sounds like a usability issue to me.

Let me know if you need anything else that can be answered by existing
data.

Good luck with the proposal!

All the best,
Karsten

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