you’re sorted by popular.
so it’s most downloaded to least downloaded.
Now if I design a flower pot, and in the name, or in the description, or maybe one of the component inside (??), I type “hexagonal bolt”, and it gets downloaded a million times, you’ll find it here, on top of your search. despite being a flower pot.
It’s SEO 101, can’t really get around, 3dwarehouse, google, same fight.
sorting by relevance had a similar bias. Looking for “table” by relevance, what comes back first is all the models of an account named “Table” THEN actual tables.
(I changed Popularity to relevance in the URL to show you, they removed relevance in the new warehouse but the search option still exists)
popularity sorts by number of downloads files that contain the searched terms.
relevance used to sort by looking at the name of user, then name of file, then I guess description of the file
I don’t see a good way to sort stuff in the 3d warehouse, for a simple reason, we (humans) are morons.
It all resolves around US giving a clear name, clear description, no funny characters, no typos, no cheating account names (looking at you Table)…
Both old and current system make a lot of models invisible to general searches (like table or couch), you’ll get the stuff everyone gets, or you’ll have to dig and add adjectives, details. Or use the brand new search by image that solves a lot of these issues, no need to try to describe anymore.
and it would be so much more useful than sorting by user’s name or file’s name.
right now, the sorting algorithm gives me a mix of all the non-latin names (japanese, chinese, cyrillic) then latin characters.
sorting by weight or polycount would be way more useful