Well, sometime in the last week or so, JustLooking broke the 25 000 download barrier. It’s hard to be sure exactly when, since a lot of the downloads are via bittorrent, and I don’t have exact stats on all the places that it’s been uploaded to, but I have counted at least 6 500 torrent downloads in addition to the 20 000+ direct HTTP downloads on my actual server.

For a program of only six months of life, I’m reasonably pleased with this. It started out with only English, French, Italian, and Spanish in version 1.0, and has since added (in addition to doing those languages correctly): Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, and Portuguese.

The program itself has gone from being a rather ugly little clone of the windows Win32 image viewing application to something a bit more Mac-like, and with its own growing feature set. While it’s definitely not for everybody (it is far better suited to people who like to manage images by hand in various directories on their machine), there does seem to be a growing user base, and I hope to most people happy with future versions!

I’m already beginning to plan out the next major version of the program, and while I won’t spoil all the fun, I’ve been reading everybody’s comments in the various articles on this blog. So this is your last chance: If there’s anything you would really like to see in version 3, add a comment to this article, and I just might add it!

I’d like to give a special thanks to those people who have helped me localise the program, thus far: Stefanie Schau, Laurent Molina, Roberto Bellina, Carola Clavo, Sergey Melnik, Markus Peltomäki, Emmanuel Lemor, Geir Werner Hagen, Mathias Sjöström, Henrik Östlund, Zhang Tongzhu, Emma Liu, Marco Frasca, Nitoc Taiwan, and Helvécio Mafra. Special thanks are also due to Yann le Coroller, who has been helping out with various user interface suggestions and ideas.

Here’s looking forward to the next 25 000 downloads and beyond, and to hoping that the program doesn’t get so popular that I can’t afford to host it any more on my servers!

Thanks to everybody for making this happen!