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ttadej
Advisor
8 years ago

Difference between popularity and kudos.sum(weight) API v2 sort

I'm curious what the difference is between the API v2 messages sort when using 'popularity' vs 'kudos.sum(weight)'. The docs say that 'popularity' is based on kudos, so are those two sorts the same o...
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TariqHussain
Boss
8 years ago

ttadej - Popularity does work with the time period.  e.g 

 

Message A has 20 kudos in 1 week 

Message B has 15 kudos in 2 days. 

 

Message B will always have more popularity than message A.  There could be multiple criteria for this(example) which lithium support can answer.