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 ## What I Learned from Scale
 
-I was the primary maintainer of [Requests](/software/requests) for over a decade, with help from several dedicated co-maintainers along the way. At its peak, it was being downloaded tens of millions of times a month. The issue tracker was relentless. The PR queue was always full. The community was enormous and vocal and, for the most part, extraordinarily generous.
+I was the BDFL of [Requests](/software/requests) for over a decade, with help from several dedicated co-maintainers along the way. It's downloaded over 30 million times a day. The issue tracker was relentless. The PR queue was always full. The community was enormous and vocal and, for the most part, extraordinarily generous.
 
 I want to tell the truth about what that was like, because the truth is more instructive than the mythology.