As a matter of interest I went back and had a look at the number of downloads for the earlier versions of YAK, back when it was hosted at SourceForge. The number was a lot higher than I remembered and, added to the 4781 (at time of writing) downloads since WordPress has been hosting it, means the 10,000-downloads milestone came and went… completely uncommented upon.

YAK is now (almost officially) a three year old project. I started the SourceForge project (March 06) about a month or so after I’d started mucking around with the code itself. It started, from a rather simple idea, and over time has turned into a product that, I believe, is reasonably competitive in terms of features. Not perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, but good enough for a part-time project that has only had time to evolve, rather than be properly designed.

YAK looks a bit like an “also-ran” compared to the number of downloads for the alternative cart plugins on WordPress, but when you look at the real figure (currently 11,635) it’s actually almost holding its own. Not quite so sure why it rates so low (I certainly haven’t received an enormous number of complaints, and I’ve attempted to fix most, if not all, of the bugs that have been reported) — could be the lack of free documentation, or something else I haven’t thought of.

Still, to the few thousand or so people (I’m guessing) who have amassed 11,000+ downloads over the last few years, to the (unfortunately smaller ) number who have bought the handbook, and the various contributors who have offered patches, bug fixes, translations, suggestions, etc — thanks for all your support.