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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

anthonypasq wrote: post #120
hn_submit wrote: post #22

Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.

I have an app with several AI features that I will not mentioning use AI at all because its completely irrelevant and the users will hate it for no reason.

So you recognize that your users will dislike these features. And your solution is to try to hide it, rather than removing the features you know your users won't like? You do you, but that doesn't seem like good product design to me.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by thangalin »

hn_submit wrote: post #22

Companies are totally blind to the fact that A.I. is a complete turn-off to many customers. Not having / using A.I. may even become a unique selling point in the future.

For my text editor, KeenWrite[1], 42% of users answered that they'd use AI. Since the majority don't want it, no AI has been added.

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by [deleted] »

leptons wrote: post #165
NitpickLawyer wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories. Either there's 1m people downloading new software "because no ai", or there's another popular thing that installs this, and is not counted in the "updates via linux repos". One is much much more probable than the other.

You underestimate the public's hatred of AI-in-everything. HN is a bubble of AI.

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Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by jandrese »

gopalv wrote: post #180
kitd wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolute number of downloads inevitably goes up. Weekly downloads number doesn't.

> Weekly downloads number doesn't. The ChatGPT app downloads a copy of LibreOffice when you ask it to make pptx files. So I've downloaded LibreOffice 3 times this week without really paying attention to it.

Ironic since the headline implies that people are downloading it specifically to avoid AI features being shoved into our document editors.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by LordDragonfang »

MoonWalk wrote: post #61
smokel wrote: post #6

The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

But still nice to hear. Really timely, too, since my 83-year-old mom called me the other day to help her E-mail a document she prepared in LibreOffice. I installed it on her (seldom-used) computer years ago. So I talked her through E-mailing it with Thunderbird. And I say "talked," because the jagoffs at Microsoft REMOVED Remote Assistance from every version of Windows used by people who are likely to need it. And MS…

>And I say "talked," because the jagoffs at Microsoft REMOVED Remote Assistance from every version of Windows used by people who are likely to need it.

https://rustdesk.com/

But also, you'll notice that giant banner on the linked page. It's because the people "most likely to need it" are also those most likely to fall victim to the increasing number of remote assistance scams.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by tzs »

smokel wrote: post #6

The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

> Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless

It is the first to break a million in a week. Even if it has been steadily going up most people would consider passing that number interesting.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by dspillett »

loeg wrote: post #171
kitd wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolute number of downloads inevitably goes up. Weekly downloads number doesn't.

Global population is still rising. In general you should expect numbers to go up.

Unless they're is a negative force, such as people being put off by the lack of AI features. While a lack of such a response might not justify the headline used here, I think it is certainly worth noting.

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by xdavidliu »

smokel wrote: post #6

The number of weekly downloads has simply been increasing over time, due to growing popularity. Calling each new high "record-breaking" is a bit meaningless. Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment.

clickbait gonna clickbait. But you cannot blame it because in today's attention economy it really HAS to since everything else is too

Re: LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

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Post by tcfhgj »

andai wrote: post #164
NitpickLawyer wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories. Either there's 1m people downloading new software "because no ai", or there's another popular thing that installs this, and is not counted in the "updates via linux repos". One is much much more probable than the other.

> or there's another popular thing that installs this Yeah, an AI tool: The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396

and the bundled copies will contribute to installer download statistics?
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