[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:  Improved Search
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                    |
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Comment (by dd32):

 Just to add a data point, on Themes the sort isn't based on Installs
 alone, but rather `Installs / Theme age` such that a plugin that has 10k
 installs over 100 days and one that has 100k over 1,000 days are weighted
 the same in the sort order.

 This doesn't translate 1:1 to the plugin directory search, since we've got
 the ES filtering instead.

 Noting, the search code linked in the description here isn't the one
 that's in use, it's this one (that's mostly the same thing):
 https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress.org/blob/4a9bdffdecfc46dc42debb026ec34476f1a7b096/wordpress.org/public_html
 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-directory/class-plugin-search.php#L342-L368

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