Add a threshold for the minimum number of installs to the filter component

Created on 18 October 2022, about 2 years ago
Updated 12 October 2023, about 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

In the context of Add a filter type for the release status Postponed: needs info the suggestion came up it would be of great use to add the ability to the filter component to set some sort of minimum number of active installs threshold. So that the user is for example able to filter for full releases and release candidates with at least 1000 installs.

For the record the issue was identified and initially discussed during #3312892: Drupal Usability Meeting 2022-10-07 . The issue has a link to the recording of the meeting. The attendees were @AaronMcHale, @benjifisher, @narendraR, @rkoller, @shaal, @simohell, @srishtiiee, @Utkarsh_33, and @worldlinemine.

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Proposed resolution

Add a number field to the filter component for setting the minimum number of active installs.

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Feature request
Status

Closed: won't fix

Version

1.0

Component

User experience

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🇩🇪Germany rkoller Nürnberg, Germany

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  • 🇺🇸United States chrisfromredfin Portland, Maine

    i like this tagged with core-post-mvp but I am wary that we'll be able to identify the threshold of what the actual number is that makes it valid and worthwhile. I tend to think _sorting_ by popularity (desc) solves the use case better.

  • 🇩🇪Germany rkoller Nürnberg, Germany

    sorting just by popularity wouldn't be the same like having such a threshold plus the sorting by popularity ascending. without the threshold you might have a long, a very long, tail of modules with 1 or 15 installs for some searches. and a user might consider a small number of installs not trustworthy enough. with sorted by popularity in descending order you only get the big common ones. by sorting in ascending order you get the long tail but within that long tail there might be some hidden gems. by providing the ability to have a lower threshold of a minimum number of installs the user would be able based on context to individually change that threshold. for one search query the structure of search results it would be reasonable to set that threshold to 50 for another search to 100 or one users says in general all modules i want to considers should have at least the number of x installs.

  • 🇺🇸United States chrisfromredfin Portland, Maine

    I will try to get some discussion on this in today's meeting. I can see the value, but I also don't want to clutter the UI with a text field (or would we have some sort of dropdown / bracketing: minimum of 10: 100: 1000?). Of course it would go in the advanced filters dropdown, which somewhat mitigates it...

  • Status changed to Closed: won't fix about 1 year ago
  • 🇺🇸United States chrisfromredfin Portland, Maine

    I think this is something we can wait to see if the users clamor for it once it's in core as experimental (or beyond) before dedicated effort to it.

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