I just visited scratch.drupal.org to see how it looks now. And YES its really NICE!
The new categorization of modules is much better than the endless list currently
on drupal.org. But I was wondering whether it was possible to add a download
counter to the projects and use the information to create a fourth tab (besides
browse by category, by date and by name) called e.g. 'browse by popularity'.
I think it would be very useful esp. for new users.

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Not that it's complex to figure out the UI, but here is an example of a similar implementation: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

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Title: browse by popularity » browse by download popularity

refining the title as per the original post, since this is different from http://drupal.org/node/66013 but we should be clear why.

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dww
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Title: browse by download popularity » browse projects by # of downloads

even better...

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Version: x.y.z » 6.x-1.x-dev
Issue tags: +drupal.org priority, +Developer improvements, +Business improvements, +Site builder improvements

Tagging.

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Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-2.x-dev
Issue summary: View changes

Well, when this issue was opened, we couldn't rely on this https://drupal.org/project/usage/

But we still don't have this broken down by downloads. Let alone by version of the downloads.

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Drupal.org sorts projects by most installed, which is generally more useful than downloads.

  • Both downloads and usage can be faked, but downloads is much more straightforward. Just need to request the file.
  • Many downloads happen via Git or build systems, that don't register as a download of the packaged archive.
  • Usage is more interesting, it is how many sites are actively using the module.