Why default sort is changed to "most popular" on exchange

[digitalm20920651]

For adobe exchange website. It seems the default sort is "most popular" rather than "most recent". Not sure if it's an expected change, as it's confused that newly added add-on is always in the oldest page (it's page #118 now). We plan to add some new add-ons recently, and how would it be possibly visible/populated to end customer...We guess this could confuse other producers, like us, who will post some new add-ons.

[Jonathan Ferman · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The default sort was changed to most popular as well as making some other curated changes in order to test what effect it had on downloads. We intend to put the behavior back to most recent as the default shortly, I do not have a timeframe on this yet but wanted you to be aware that we do intend to change it back. We also plan to up the marketing and experimentation we do on Exchange CC to test and see what works best for consumers and developers. Feedback is always welcome.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[pingz74673221]

+1 for reverting default sort back to "most recent", for promotion of new extensions or existing extensions with new features.

[daveral]

Hello,

Any update? we r going to publish new plug in. hope it won't sink... Thanks

Dave

[VIRGO1225]

Hello - Marie Joshi here. As an FYI Jonathan Ferman left Adobe recently, but we're here to help! This isn't on our roadmap to change short term, but I'll work with the site manager to get a timeline for you. In the meantime, check out a post I recently wrote on how to increase visibility to your extensions on Exchange: https://medium.com/adobetech/how-to-optimize-your-listing-in-adobe-exchange-for-creative-cloud-30f3...

[daveral]

Thanks Marie. Great staff in the link to look into. Also really looking forward to the timeline... Thanks.

Dave

[daveral]

Hello,

Any update on the timeline?

Thanks.

Dave

[erinferinferinf]

Hi Dave,

Sorry about the delay... but in short, no, there is no update on the timeline for changing the sort order anytime soon.

We're still hiring for Jonathan's position, and it's the sort of thing the person in his old role would do.

Best,

Erin

[daveral]

It has been a while. Still seeing the website stays with odd default sort...

[ivyj1525966]

+1

[ivyj1525966]

The current sort is really frustrating new add-on producer....