Most popular themes less popular than expected

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?page=1&sort=users&type=statictheme%2Cpersona
I’m surprised that on the first page of most popular themes, it goes all the way down to the 400s. That’s much less users than I would expect. Are Firefox themes becoming less popular in general? Or is the way users are calculated different? Or both? Or neither? Just curious.

That’s a good question, @StoryMaker-Christian-Echidna. We recently upgraded themes to a new technology, and it looks like the upgrade has temporarily affected their user stats. A lot of themes are missing from the “most popular” list.

We’re going to keep our eyes on this for a few days. If the user stats don’t recover in that time, we’ll do some further investigations and hopefully fix the underlying cause.

Thanks for flagging this!

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Ah, glad to confirm it’s just an error and happy to hear you’re looking into it.

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