[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #496: Plugin Directory: Pagination issue in Popular Plugins section

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#496: Plugin Directory: Pagination issue in Popular Plugins section
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 Reporter:  SergeyBiryukov    |       Owner:
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Plugin Directory v3.0
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch         |
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Comment (by gibrown):

 It is going to be pretty impossible to scale the MySQL queries to handle
 deep paging of results. Deep paging just doesn't perform very well.

 I propose that we address this with a faceted search interface that let's
 users filter by various plugin data. See #2753

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