Tending packages in dub registry

[bauss]

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 13:17:13 UTC, aberba wrote:
> Currently, the dub registry shows the most popular packages 
> which pretty much always stays same...probably some are used as 
> dependencies in other popular libs, raising their download 
> count (which I believe is or is part of what's used for the 
> ranking).
>
> That alone is not very useful , I think I would like to see 
> something like trending packages... to get a sense of what 
> people are using as a first sign when choosing a package in the 
> dub registry.. or yet still, allow us to see sort/see other/all 
> packages based on popularity.

I think a better way would be to have a rotation and then show 
packages with only a specific ranking like > 2.5 or something.

That way the list will change, but it'll still be of packages 
that are "popular".

I agree that it's not really a great column to have.

The alternative to a rotation would be listing top packages for 
different categories.