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

altart
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How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

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.


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

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Re: How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

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

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

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#3 2023-03-02 02:36:11

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Re: How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

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.

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#4 2023-03-02 03:51:31

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Re: How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

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


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#5 2024-08-03 14:48:24

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Re: How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

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

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#6 2024-08-03 15:46:51

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Re: How does the AUR calculate package popularity?

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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