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Jeremy Olexa wrote:
> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> 
>> I have triggered report re-creation, your data is now included:
>> http://smolt.hartwork.org:45678/static/stats/gentoo.html
> 
> I notice an inconsistency. Everything is sorted by popularity, except
> "Archs", "Chosts", & "System profiles" - By design? It is hard to read
> at first glance and could get worse as more data is submitted.

By design, yes.  I made an exception with these as I felt it would not
be right with these tables.

In general a user can seek for the answer to (at least) these two
different questions:
- What's the top 1, top 2, top 3
- How does item X (e.g. use flag "mp3") rank

Doing both in a static table can only be done with JavaScript magic
that's currently beyond my expertise.
As a result I had to choose between sort-by-popularity and
sort-alphabetically.  While a user can still answer the "how does item X
rank" question using browser text search determining the top N from the
table in his head alone can be quite a hard task.  So I think the
sort-by-popularity approach mainly "hurts less".

I'm open to suggestions on how to improve presentation of the data.



Sebastian