Thank you. It is good to know what I am looking at when I am looking at it. This confirms to me that the most popular list is now better than it has ever been before. I do think, though, that it needs some kind of explanation right there on its page. Now I am left asking myself why I am so worried about knowing something that has no real use for me.
Roger Loran Bailey"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Karl Marx The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html----- Original Message ----- From: "Lara Long" <laral@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:13 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: More on the most popular list. Hey Roger and friends,The "most popular" downloads logic was always designed to be that it shows all downloads greater than zero for the last 30 days sorted by most downloaded to least.
It *was* unfortunately implemented at site launch (predates me) as basically "recently added" books - books added in last 30 days.
In the work that we did in the full text search release we did implement components of the browse links to use the new search engine instead of hitting the database directly. While we were doing this we fixed the browse by most popular downloads to actually reflect the original design (noted above in first sentence).
This is why you see the large number of results now appearing. It actually IS the number of downloads in the last 30 days of any book downloaded more than once.
Let me know if you have any additional thoughts or questions on this! Thanks, Lara Long Literacy Product Manager m: 512.771.4257 o: 650.644.3445 @soolara On Jan 19, 2010, at 6:13 PM, Roger Loran Bailey wrote:
We were recently discussing the most popular list and I expressed some ideasabout it that I suspected and some frustrations because I didn't know for sure. Well, that discussion was based on the assumption that it displayedabout 1600 titles which is about roughly equivalent to the number it showedbefore this new search funtion was instituted and so was probably the most popular books in the last month. Well, it now shows 20845 results. I doubtthat is a list of books downloaded in the last month. The first page has notsignificantly changed, so I suppose the default sort order has not changedeither, but now I am even less sure what I am looking at. Changing the sortorder to title, author, copyright date or date of addition will not, with this large number, be useful at all for determining the popularity of a book. It would be really nice if we could be given some basic informationlike what is the sort order and over what period of time it covers. That is,what good is a list if we don't know exactly what it is a list of? Roger Loran Bailey "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." Karl Marx The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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