SUMMARY The current default sort order for KNewStuff is by rating. The problem is that the items sorted by rating are sometimes very old and often don't work anymore! I think the default order should be changed to most downloaded, because it shows the items that are actually popular (many downloads) and are more up to date. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use a "Get New..." button 2. Look at the items
Actually, using Most Downloaded exposes the exact same problem: the longer something has been on the site, the more downloads it's had. As such, which one to make default is sort of a judgment call because one is not clearly better than the other one, so the current default is probably fine in the absence of a clearly better option. We are working on hiding or removing old content that no longer works, which should address the thrust of the issue.
Until you have removed the old and non-working content, I really suggest you change it to "Most Downloaded", because if you look at the current lists by rating, you can clearly see that the top content is already very outdated. The "Most Downloaded" category doesn't have this problem.
Also, the "Most Downloaded" category only shows the most downloads in 3 months as far as I know.
Ping?
Feel free to submit a patch. :) Here's mine that changed it to the current default for reference: https://cgit.kde.org/knewstuff.git/commit/?id=5b1fb84923809a5205257f82090d3b65faef9e1c
Git commit bd398cc43389d1eff0eb451dbc458327733d79a0 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Björn Feber. Committed on 27/12/2018 at 19:29. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Change default sort order in the download dialog to "Most downloads" Summary: This changes the default sort ordering of the download dialog to "Most downloads" (in 3 months), because the current problem is that the items sorted by rating are sometimes very old and often don't work anymore. When you change the sort order to "Most downloads" it shows the items that are actually popular (many downloads in 3 months) and they are are more up to date. Test Plan: Open a GHNS dialog and see that the default sort ordering of the content is by "Most downloads", and that the "Most downloads" radio button is checked. Reviewers: #frameworks, #vdg, ngraham Reviewed By: #vdg, ngraham Subscribers: ngraham, filipf, #vdg, kde-frameworks-devel, #frameworks Tags: #frameworks, #vdg Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D17641 M +2 -2 src/downloadwidget.cpp M +4 -4 src/downloadwidget.ui https://commits.kde.org/knewstuff/bd398cc43389d1eff0eb451dbc458327733d79a0