filiptronicek
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9 hours ago @amvanbaren did some changes to sorting last year in https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/pull/672, but IIRC that was just for sorting by "Rating". I'm not sure what we sort by now by default, but download count should definitely be one of the main factors we take a look at (besides probably string distance).
I recently received a complaint about an extension that was misleading. It was a republication of a popular extension, sight changes to
package.json, but otheriwse no changes to name, displayname or any of the links. And because it was new, it was showing up first in the search results, ahead of the much more popular extension. I'm recommending we change our search ranking to more heavily, or completely, weight on download count.@filiptronicek @spoenemann @amvanbaren Thoughts?