Request: Sort Icons by Most Downloaded

[bhadaway]

Currently, you can sort the icons alphabetically or by color.

Additionally, it would be useful to be able to sort them by popularity.

Why?

Say I want to use Simple Icons for a project, but I don't want to include ALL icons because that would be beyond the scope of the project (for size limits as one example). Say instead that I would simply like to grab the 10 most or even 100 most popular icons.

Additionally, this could have some academic value and be a new metric for which to decide what icons need to be culled from the herd. I saw that popularity is a major pain point for maintaining the project and deciding which icons should stay and which should go.

I feel like simply tracking which icons are downloaded the most might be the most useful metric of all for this. And then rather than deciding which services are most popular out in the wild, find out what icons are most useful and keep it to the 1000 most popular ones or something to that effect.

How?

Simply track the number of times each icon is downloaded (if you're not already) and sort by most downloaded.

[mondeja]

This approach will not help so much because our icons are downloaded through many ways, giving the fact that the package is released in npm, Packagist, CDNs... Also, I'm not sure if you are trying to sort by brand popularity or brand icon popularity, could you clarify that?

I'm not totally against this, but I think it would be out of the scope of the project for now, but you always can create an up to date popularity data file as a third party extension that we could consume to sort by icon or brand popularity.

[bhadaway]

No, I would suggest completely ignoring npm, Packagist, CDNs, or anything else developer-based. That would be a can of worms indeed, and only serve to be counterproductive.

I'm speaking to regular folk, downloading straight from the simpleicons.org website only. Trying to discern between brand and icon popularity (which may be one in the same) would probably be a fool's errand.

Rather, let's throw out the word "popularity" altogether and use instead, "Most Downloaded." Naturally, the obvious ones would rise to the top (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), but again, the real value lies in the top 10, top 100, top 1000, and going even further on this path, to be able to declare the exact number of icons one wishes to download/load into a project would be pretty useful too.

Concerning my idea about using this as a metric for culling, that probably would be too dangerous. Still, it could be a useful metric for anecdotal reference.