OpenSubtitles forum

Hi all! Wasn't sure how to phrase the question in the subject line, hope this works.

I have posted a few different subtitles to opensubtitles.org and don't look at my stats too often. But I saw something unexpected recently... Basically, a set of subtitles I uploaded in November last year was not getting a lot of downloads at first - but between early January and the end of March this year, that specific set of subs had gone from about 50 to over 400 downloads! None of my other subs had gotten near the same amount of attention - including the other subs related to the same series - so now I'm full of questions as to why that specific entry got attention.

I know there is a counter saying that it's been X hours since the last person downloaded your subtitles, but is there any way for me to check statistics showing a more detailed overview of during which time periods people downloaded the subs previously? Because I would really love to know if the downloads trickled in slowly over several months or I could pinpoint some event that got a lot of people to want to watch the movie again at the same time.

As far as I know, there is no such detailed statistics.

All I can think of for your sudden increase of downloads is that you initially uploaded your subs through the upload webpage and thus without a socalled 'hashcode'. These hashcodes are meant to identify a specific matching video file. Subtitles without any hashcode are often not seen at all by download software. After a while, a hashcode was added and since then the subs are seen by those software. Most likely this increased the number of downloads.