List of community extensions in sidebar is unstable

[archiewood]

Seems to be a random selection of 5

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[carlopi]

Hi!
Currently this is intended: on each website rebuild, for each page 5 extensions are selected at random and placed there.

There has been some but limited though on this, what do you think would work better ?

I am semi convinced that at least being stable while navigating back / refreshing makes sense. For the rest, open to ideas / discussion.

[carlopi]

Do you have any suggestion / improvements ?

[archiewood]

I'd suggest either:

• listing all alphabetically? (but perhaps it's deemed that this will become too long)
• feature a random 5 each build, but the same 5 site wide so they don't "jump" on nav
• picking the top 5 by github stars (or some other metric)

[carlopi]

I can see this is also confusing, would be better to have:

• one set of extensions (randomized at build times) for all top level pages
• each extension pages feature a different randomized set

I think it's somehow nicer that different extensions have different 'suggestions' (even if it's just random), but then main navigation stays with the same structure.

[archiewood]

Eventually you could figure out some affinity between extensions (users that install a also install b) and show those on the extension page.

For example, users that install gsheets might also be interested in sheetreader and bigquery

[hannes]

I agree that the randomness is super confusing