How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

altart · 2023-03-02 02:28:28

I was browsing the AUR when I noticed that it has a popularity system.

I went to check which was the most popular package, and unsurprisingly it was hyprland, but I was in doubt about how it calculates and if it has something to do with time since one day hyprland will decay from use and there are several packages in the AUR who has 0 popularity.

jasonwryan · 2023-03-02 02:35:04

You can vote for a package. Or you can send tacos to the TUs.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aurvote

Last edited by jasonwryan (2023-03-02 02:35:51)

V1del · 2023-03-02 02:36:11

There's a question mark you can hover on the popularity table name. which reads

The popularity hover text wrote:

Popularity is calculated as the sum of all votes with each vote being weighted with a factor of 0.98 per day since its creation.

altart · 2023-03-02 03:51:31

Wow, I feel kind of stupid for not having noticed. Thank you very much!!

aljustiet · 2024-08-03 14:48:24

V1del wrote:

There's a question mark you can hover on the popularity table name. which reads
The popularity hover text wrote:
Popularity is calculated as the sum of all votes with each vote being weighted with a factor of 0.98 per day since its creation.

Does this mean that every day it's decreased like this:

1 * 0.98^n

?

Trilby · 2024-08-03 15:46:51

What's the "n" there? Based on the description the calculation would be:

Popularity_today = Popularity_yesterday * 0.98 + New_votes_from_today

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#1 2023-03-02 02:28:28

How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

#2 2023-03-02 02:35:04

Re: How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

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Re: How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

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