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To me, the "Top Gainers" project list looks almost identical to the "Most Popular" one. At any rate, it shows only projects which have a fairly high profile already.

I think that this list would be more useful if it showed those projects that skipped the most popularity ranks in the last 24 hours, or maybe even 7 days. I use Ohloh to discover neat open source projects, so it would be good to know about those projects that are not as well-known as, say, Mozilla Firefox, but have made people happy enough to rank them high.

Thanks, Andreas.

antifuchs

almost 6 years ago

hi Andreas,

When we released the new homepage we weren't sure what the "top gainers" would show. As you point out - it's been a failure since it mostly mirrors top stacked projects.

The goal is to reveal interesting (positive) trends in project popularity. Perhaps a simple approach would be to show a simple ratio of:

RATIO = [STACKS DURING LAST WEEK] / [STACKS DURING 2 WEEKS AGO]

We could filter out projects that are less than 2 weeks old. This would show projects who are seeing proportionally higher stacking.

Sound reasonable? Any other suggestions?

Jason Allen

almost 6 years ago

That could work, I think. I also like the idea of limiting project age for its potential of limiting the possibility of stacking wars between projects.

antifuchs

almost 6 years ago

Jason, that sounds like a much better approach than what we see now at least so give it a shot and see. You can always trim it further later on should it not be enough.

Daniel Stenberg

almost 6 years ago

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