Packagist: [Feature] Ability to order by downloads on most actions
If you go to popular the download counts are all over the place.
I cloned the repo and it loks that downloads are stored in meta. Is there a way to check a GET param for order and see if it is set to downloads and sort based on that?
dmyers
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Actually if you look at https://packagist.org/explore/popular - it's ranked by recent popularity and not absolute popularity. That's because something that once upon a time was popular but has become unused shouldn't show up on top of the popularity charts.
Seldaek
on 21 May 2013
but at the same time, if something popular suddenly (for a month or so) doesn't mean it is stable i guess, and this lead make it more popular as it is shown on top based on recent popularity and people tend to click that and get. I think users should be given to sort by what they prefer
just one example when i search for csv
top one is 30K+ downloads and 3 stars but the second one is 45K downloads and 11 stars. This way packagist force recent popular one to become more popular. just my thought
rasikas
on 19 Aug 2014
I think this should be left for the users to decide. If i want to sort my results by number of downloads then it should let me. I'm really missing this feature. Sorting by download really helped me find the best results quickly, now it's all messed up and i have to open packages with 11 downloads before i'm able to find anything useful.
P.S. The sort by downloads was also super helpful for new developers in knowing what most people are using, which is sort of a clue which package developers trust the most. I would have never discovered symfony's components if this feature was not there. Please consider putting it back because it was incredibly helpful feature.
sanchitbh
on 23 Sep 2017
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I think this should be left for the users to decide. If i want to sort my results by number of downloads then it should let me. I'm really missing this feature. Sorting by download really helped me find the best results quickly, now it's all messed up and i have to open packages with 11 downloads before i'm able to find anything useful.
P.S. The sort by downloads was also super helpful for new developers in knowing what most people are using, which is sort of a clue which package developers trust the most. I would have never discovered symfony's components if this feature was not there. Please consider putting it back because it was incredibly helpful feature.