Download Counter Test 2

thingiverse

Nothing useful. Just a test. Testing how much bot and other site download / grab / archive the things without any care of usefulness... Creation and upload to thingiverse : 10:00 01.10.2021 CET Set to public: 20:50 02.10.2021 This useless thing was set to public after a day later of creation. Its counter shows just 5 downloads happened after two days... Compare it with the other (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4978257) test result. There the useless thing was created, uploaded and immediately set to public. After 10 minutes already 30 downloads were counted. A day later 223 downloads...But after 2 days the counter does not increase further... **So If you want to minimize the chance that your thing from Thingiverse would be downloaded by other site (and they maybe distribute it without knowing and even getting feedback) and you just want to focusing the real human downloads, wait some days after the thing was created before set it for public.** *Update: The link mentioned above does not work after 5 days. I can modify and save it, but no one else can see it anymore. Anyone who clicks will get the 404 error: "You have reached the end of the Thingiverse ...". Interesting. As if it weren't public, though it was. And I can't make it public again. No public button on edit page ... This is also a Thingiverse mystery...*