There is a specific record being claimed.

They're not just saying the absolute downloads are going up, as the OP suggests.

Their point was more that, if every 'weekly download count after a new release' (or whatever record) is consistently being broken on each new release due to generally increasing popularity, then it doesn't make sense to imply causality between the messaging around this particular release and its already-expected record-breaking status.

	▲	Timon3 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		And that's the case? Weekly download numbers have been consistently trending upwards?

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tux3 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They're saying the weekly numbers grow a little bit every week, so every week is technically record breaking.

The absolute number of lifetime downloads can of course only go up (but that's even more vacuous).

	▲	robrain 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Their last sentence: “Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment” makes that vacuous connection, hence my original comment.