# One Million Downloads 🎉

**URL:** <https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/one-million-downloads/2751>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [July 17, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/one-million-downloads/2751 "2018-07-17T21:12:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/one-million-downloads/2751/1 "2018-07-17T21:12:30Z")

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This is more of a “fun” thing. But Avogadro just passed a million downloads on SourceForge.

One million downloads.

[https://sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro/files/stats/timeline?dates=2001-01-01%20to%202018-07-17](https://sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro/files/stats/timeline?dates=2001-01-01%20to%202018-07-17)

Considering the recent community survey indicated ~40% of users install through package managers, that’s a huge number. At the moment, we also have \>1500 citations on Google Scholar for the paper.

Thanks to an amazing community, from all the contributors, to the users, testers, bug reporters, .. it’s amazing to pass this milestone and we couldn’t have done it without all of you. That’s the wonderful thing of open source.

We’ve got lots more planned for 2018!

Cheers,  
-Geoff

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**Author:** ![Allie\_Vacanti](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/allie_vacanti/32/471_2.png) [@Allie\_Vacanti](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/Allie_Vacanti)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/one-million-downloads/2751/2 "2018-07-18T13:38:40Z")

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Congrats, that’s awesome! It’s great to see the continued success of this valuable project.

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**Author:** ![mhanwell](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/mhanwell/32/16_2.png) [@mhanwell](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/mhanwell)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/one-million-downloads/2751/3 "2018-07-19T00:17:46Z")

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Agreed, fantastic to see our download and citation numbers continue to climb.

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**Author:** ![fusion809](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/fusion809/32/428_2.png) [@fusion809](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/fusion809)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 3:28am UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/one-million-downloads/2751/4 "2018-07-20T03:28:21Z")

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'tis quite impressive given chemistry software is a fairly unpopular category of software. Even among Linux users they’re fairly unpopular, in fact I’ve seen a few, usually fairly unpopular, distros not bother packaging 'em at all.