According to https://drupal.org/project/usage/572834 Drupal 8 usage peaked in February 2013 and has been declining ever since. This seems unlikely, and instead perhaps points to either a bug in update.module where usage statistics are sent, or a bug in the data collection on drupal.org?

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I noticed this too and found it curious. This might have something to do with the upcoming move to semantic versioning? It could be that some of the d.o. infrastructure stuff is being re-tooled now to deal with this new scheme for D8 core and contrib:

#2170443: [meta] Create a plan for implementing semantic versioning for core
#1612910: [policy, no patch] Switch to Semantic Versioning for Drupal contrib extensions (modules, themes, etc)

I don't have any special knowledge on this topic, but thought this might an interesting variable that could help explain things.

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I'll just add that for my contrib theme, I created a drupal 8 version (dev and alpha) several months ago and no Drupal 8 version was ever rendered in the stats. I don't know if that helps or not in narrowing this down but thought I'd mention it.

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I don't think semver would have anything to do with it, since nothing from that feature is deployed yet AFAIK, but yes I agree it seems odd. https://web.archive.org/web/20110430020739/http://drupal.org/project/usa... shows that in D7 at a similar time during release (~alpha, pre-beta) we had between 1,358 and 1,930 D7 sites and there are way more people contributing to D8 than there were D7.

Anyone up for debugging this? :)

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Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

#2267715: [meta] Drupal.org (websites/infra) blockers to a Drupal 8 RC1

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That is caused by #1963092: Convert .info file rewriting in packaging plugins to deal with D8 .info.yml files. Check the .yml file and you will see the project name and timestamp are missing.

This makes update module not to phone home.

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FYI, I just noticed that Drupal 8 stats are now being shown for the first time for my contrib theme.

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Interesting. Core also shows a ginormous jump around June 29 from 18 => 294 and has been growing ever since. https://www.drupal.org/project/usage/drupal Great!