Are there any statistics available on the remotestorage user base?
I guess since it’s decentralized, this is a hard question.
But how about the main remotestorage providers such as 5apps, are there numbers for active applications or active users?
As you said yourself, due to RS being a protocol, and being completely decentralized, there’s absolutely no way to measure this across the Internet.
I can speak for 5apps here. We log rough usage by counting HTTP requests per account. The last 30 days look like this:
- 42,843,295 HTTP requests overall
- 16,712 unique accounts
Request method:
| Value | % | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GET | 60.61% | 25,961,978 | |
| OPTIONS | 37.31% | 15,980,619 | |
| PUT | 2.06% | 882,401 | |
| DELETE | 0.03% | 12,293 | |
| HEAD | 0.00% | 359 |
However, I should add that a considerable amount of our accounts are created on a custom B2B subscription, where one of our clients is using them as a sync back-end for their apps without telling users that it’s using RS under the hood. This has allowed us to contribute a ton of bug fixes and improvements to remoteStorage.js as well as the spec over time. So from our point of view that’s a reasonable trade-off while the protocol is in draft stage, and not officially recommended for production usage by IETF.
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Thanks kindly for such a detailed response 
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