Order results by number or downloads or stars.

[emil-nasso]

I am fairly certain that you could order search results by number of downloads and by number of github starts before.

Is there a way to reintroduce that feature? If I search for swagger (just as an example) I get results that are very relevant (popular projects with many downloads) on page two and three.

An alternative would be to always sort the results by number of downloads.

[stof]

See https://github.com/composer/packagist/pull/813 for the work on improving search relevancy for the new search system

[Seldaek]

Merged the other PR, hopefully things are better now?

[arcticlinux]

Example, I'm looking at https://packagist.org/packages/webmozart/assert and wondering how this package has 80 million installs, took me until page 10 of the dependants page to find that it is used by phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock

[stof]

@arcticlinux the dependant list is not related to the search system.

[arcticlinux]

@stof will try to find if someone has an open issue. I see the search is coming out of Algolia.

[stof]

yes, the search is from Algolia now. The dependant list is not.

[j13k]

Recent discussion has been about the dependants list, but getting back to the original issue, the main package search still doesn't allow sorting.

[zonky2]

hmm ...?? I can't find anything to sort on the site https://packagist.org/

I would like to sort by

• last added
• by date of release