Most Popular

Algorithm would be better served

popularity = (1.5 x loves ) + likes.

Gotta give credit that a "love" is more than a "like" at least. You can, of course, tweak that number--but at the very least you should have it weighted a bit.

Also--are you going ot add a "most popular" bar to home page? Would need to be most *recently* popular..so a bit more work, but I think its a good idea.

Yep that's what we were thinking ;) need to take into account likes, loves, views, downloads, # comments etc and weight them all accordingly.

And also yeah "popular additions" is the plan for the home page

Well, the best thing to do is come up with something arbitrary and tweak as necessary.

popularity = (10 x loves ) + (5 x likes) + (3 x downloads) + (1 x views) + (0.5 x (comments - submitters comments))

Just throwing something random out there. :P

Shhhhh you're ruining our patent! :P

I aim to please.

Ok the algorithm has been tweaked to include the other factors, so this page is showing a lot of the older stuff now:
http://beta.customize.org/browse/popular

Which brings up an interesting point, maybe we should put a timeframe on popularity? Like have an "all time most popular" and "recently popular" or something? Cus a lot of new stuff is gonna take forever to reach the top when taking into account subs with 200,000 downloads etc.

^ agreed

Yeah, a lot of those are popular...

...if you're currently residing in the year 2001.

Maybe just have most popular from the past 18-24 months?

But then e.g. "milk" wouldn't show up - yet lots of people still use it on XP (me included)... :/

Maybe give more weight to the recency of feedback. A download today is worth more then a download yesterday. It will be a complicated equation though.

Maybe loves/likes just need a lot more weight over views/downloads, so that they are most important for popularity... that would give us a "freshness" with the voting system being new

Yeah that would work too... maybe if we can work in a "downloads today/this week" thing that some sites have, we could use that data

Maybe just have most popular from the past 18-24 months?

good idea.

edit: devart has this option when browsing popular works - 'one week' 'two weeks' 'one month' and 'all time'

It's a tough balance when you have 30,000 submissions that have not yet been taken into account in the "likes and loves" system....recency is important, but not the most important factor.

Likes and loves should definitely be weighted the highest, and there should likely be "recently popular" and "all time popular" as you would except all time popular to be much less dynamic.

It's going to be a process coming up with the algorithm...but it will be reached. Just so long as I don't have to see Shinter's "Spacetraveling" as the #1 submission forever.....

Could do best of per year.

Ok I think this is better, more of a mixture of old and new, with emphasis on the new voting system but allowing old stuff to retain its high placement too:

http://beta.customize.org/browse/wallpapers/popular

Obviously its gonna need a lot of work as we go to get this right :)

(The prev/next buttons on that page are wrong btw, use the page number links for now)

I sugest a 1000x1000 red box popup saying "MOST POPULAR LOL".

The LOL part is important, don't forget it.