Improve the ingame content browser sorting (beyond “top-rated first”)

[DragonWrangler1]

Problem

After a lot of experience, I have found that mods that are in the view of players naturally get more attention than mods that are buried inside the thousands of other mods, this makes it harder for new mods, even if good, to get attention. Most of the attention for some mods comes purely from the website and during updates and the like.

I believe that the website does things in a better way than the client because

1. It shows recently updated mods.
2. Recent reviews.
3. Most popuar mod.
4. New mods.
5. Featured mods.
6. You can sort by tag.

Solutions

As a solution to this issue. I suggest the following, or pieces of the following, depending on what would be achievable... This would ofc also require ui changes.

1. Add tag sorting.
2. Recently updated
   3.Newest mods
3. Trending mods
4. Alphabetical (not sure about this one, just thought I'd put it in anyway, I don't personally have a usecase for mods sorted alphabetically)
5. Random / shuffle

Alternatives

Can't think of any. There's not really a way to get around this in-game matter, not even advertising would do.

Additional context

No response

[rubenwardy]

I didn't make an issue for it, but my plan is to recreate the website's homepage inside of Luanti. So it would be dynamic based on an API that provides rows of content matching the website's homepage.

We might need to switch to serverside searching so that we can have "show more" on each row work when searching for a full list of packages. This would make it harder to do #12485

The main menu redesign issue has some designs by Zughy for how it might look like

There could also be the ability to control the sorting of the package list generally. See https://content.luanti.org/help/api/#package-queries

sort: Sort by (name, title, score, reviews, downloads, created_at, approved_at, last_release).

[DragonWrangler1]

I didn't make an issue for it, but my plan is to recreate the website's homepage inside of Luanti. So it would be dynamic based on an API that provides rows of content matching the website's homepage.

We might need to switch to serverside searching so that we can have "show more" on each row work when searching for a full list of packages. This would make it harder to do #12485

The main menu redesign issue has some designs by Zughy for how it might look like

There could also be the ability to control the sorting of the package list generally. See https://content.luanti.org/help/api/#package-queries

sort: Sort by (name, title, score, reviews, downloads, created_at, approved_at, last_release).

Actually, I kinda like the design.

[CrazyladMT]

Actually, I kinda like the design.

I think the layout looks good, but the theme is a bit too game-specific.

I didn't make an issue for it, but my plan is to recreate the website's homepage inside of Luanti.

That is a really cool idea.

[DragonWrangler1]

Actually, I kinda like the design.

I think the layout looks good, but the theme is a bit too game-specific.

of course, still it's a pretty good design