Current Situation
I recently visited the Homebridge Plugins Analytics page with the intention of browsing popular plugins to see if there were any cool ones I was missing.
No disrespect to the plugin developers, but I was surprised to find homebridge-melcloud-control, homebridge-enphase-envoy, and homebridge-syntex among the top. They all have fewer than 100 stars, and homebridge-syntex only has 3.
By contrast, homebridge-camera-ui, which I am not surprised is popular, has almost 700.
Proposed Change
It seems like some plugins have artificially inflated download counts (not sure why), so personally, I feel like GitHub star count might be, if not a better measure, then at least a different way to determine the popularity of plugins.
Is it easy or even possible to add a column and filter/sort by GitHub star count?
Additional Context
I took a brief look at the homebridge/analytics repo. Is this the right place to start? I'm happy to try and make the updates myself and create a pull request if somebody could give me a little guidance.
Thanks for considering!
Current Situation
I recently visited the Homebridge Plugins Analytics page with the intention of browsing popular plugins to see if there were any cool ones I was missing.
No disrespect to the plugin developers, but I was surprised to find homebridge-melcloud-control, homebridge-enphase-envoy, and homebridge-syntex among the top. They all have fewer than 100 stars, and homebridge-syntex only has 3.
By contrast, homebridge-camera-ui, which I am not surprised is popular, has almost 700.
Proposed Change
It seems like some plugins have artificially inflated download counts (not sure why), so personally, I feel like GitHub star count might be, if not a better measure, then at least a different way to determine the popularity of plugins.
Is it easy or even possible to add a column and filter/sort by GitHub star count?
Additional Context
I took a brief look at the homebridge/analytics repo. Is this the right place to start? I'm happy to try and make the updates myself and create a pull request if somebody could give me a little guidance.
Thanks for considering!