Aurora Features Requests Discussion

I am enjoying Aurora immensely. The team has outdone themselves. I wanted to bring up the fantastic feature of being able to tell at a glance (by simply clicking the trainers tab at the top next to home) to see how many people have downloaded any particular trainer. An example use case for me is when I see 500+ on a trainer and I don't have that game, I am very often going to market and checking it out to see if I want to add it to my collection. I love it as-is and find it useful in a veritable sea of games to help me navigate to interesting / trending things. Thank you for that!

When I drill into a trainer, there is an option to download it for offline use and some of the older ones you actually do need to download it even if its not for offline use. Most have the USE TRAINER button right at the top with the latest version which unerringly increments the download count when used. Semantics. There is an actual download button but I did not click it. Since there is a distinction between downloading and using on each trainer page I just wanted to point that out. Clicking 'Use Trainer' may very well BE downloading it in some fashion.. its all magic to me. Perhaps 'Use Count' might be more accurate than downloads because from my perspective one of the remarkable features of Aurora is I can use it without downloading 99% of the time which is awsome!

As far as I know the download counter gets increased on 'use trainer'. This is because its the only stat which is shown public and now with Aurora-only trainers this counter would stay very low even if thousand people have 'downloaded' (use) the trainer but not the offline version.

Is it correct that you suggest to rename this counter?

Yes sir, I suggested only as a matter of semantics that in fact I use a trainer and do not download it and therefore 'downloads' count might not be the entirely accurate term for what has transpired. I think we can all extrapolate the meaning to be that the count of users that have used the trainer are the number of downloads indicated yet none of us have actually downloaded the trainer. (Exception being those that HAVE actually downloaded the trainer for which there is no representative count nor would we really care to see one). I simply meant to suggest that 'Use Count' would be a more accurate terminology for what is done as opposed to downloading which is not typically done because of the extraordinary efforts your developers have done to make it so we don't have to do that. Aurora is wonderful as-is. I bring it up only out of concern that critics may seize on this as an inaccuracy.