Why default sort is changed to "most popular"

[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.

[Trevor:]

I think a good idea is to provide a 4 list like done in many sites.

Extensions for Visual Studio family of products | Visual Studio Marketplace

https://packagecontrol.io/

Popular, Trending, New, Featured.

That way there's an exposure to all but it could be quite a lot of work to implement.

I think Jonathan Ferman​ is in charge of this. (Hi Jonathan)

[digitalm20920651]

Hello Trevor, I like your idea, but it seems more realistic back to the default order of "most recent", considering that not so many "active" extensions available in exchange, and it's not worthy spending so much efforts on that 4 lists. For any website in growing up like this, new extensions or add-ons are almost always in priority. That's not to say popular ones are not important, but there are always top bar and editor's choice for them.