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by crtc 1254 days ago
True, I quickly checked

https://rubygems.org/

https://www.nuget.org/packages

https://crates.io/

... they all show download statistics of their packages.

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Which also serves a useful purpose for devs, it's an easy way to avoid typosquatting by making sure you're not looking at a package with a similar name to the one you want but with only 2,000 views instead of 2,000,000