[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #7648: Stop weighing active installations in plugin search heavily

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#7648: Stop weighing active installations in plugin search heavily
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 Reporter:  Cybr              |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)      |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal            |  Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |   Keywords:
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 Currently, plugin search greatly favors the plugins with the most
 installations.

 However, a plugin with 1,000,000 installs isn't always better than one
 with 10,000 installations. The plugin with a million installations will
 have 2 million in 2 years, while the one with 10,000 installations might
 hit 20,000 if they're lucky and heavily promoted. This imbalanced gap is
 ever-increasing, promotes anti-competitive behavior, and discourages
 developers from contributing since all their hard work will quickly prove
 a deigned futility.

 Therefore, I suggest setting the favorability ceiling to 10,000 instead of
 1,000,000 active installations. This allows the less popular plugins to
 prosper on a level playing field. Do not forget that 10,000 is a big
 number, even in the grand scheme of things.

 The code in question can be found here:
 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org/blob/4a9bdffdecfc46dc42debb026ec34476f1a7b096/wordpress.org/public_html
 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-directory/libs/site-search/jetpack-
 search.php#L1084-L1098.

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