Cannot find my watchfaces in the CIQ categories like "Digital Watch Faces" etc.

Hello,

I cannot find my watchfaces "WeatherBarsV" and "WeatherBarsH" in the Digital Watch Faces and Data Rich Watch Faces lists, but they still can be found with the search for their titles or for the "weather" keyword.

Do you know what could be the reason for this and how could this be fixed?

I submitted both watchfaces for the "Digital" category.

Thanks!

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jim_m_58 over 5 years ago +1 suggested

You'll only see the first few apps when you do "more" on a category. If you can't see your WF there, it means it hasn't made it high enough on the list to show. In the case of Digital…
jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to PeterN +1

Not sure you can. But with the Connect IQ moble app, you can search by app type, and have it sorted by post popular, highest rated, or most recent
peterdedecker over 5 years ago in reply to markdotai +1

markdotai said:
Any idea how you even get a watchface on the "Data Rich Watchfaces" list?

set the category of your watch face to be "Utility"

I'm not sure why garmin is holding on to…

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0 myneur over 5 years ago in reply to myneur

Now I see in https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/164474/connectiq-store-categories/1086197#1086197 that the stats might reset on updates. That would explain it.

It does not make sense that the app doesn't keep its reputation and need to climb up with every update. That would discourage frequent updates from which users might be benefiting.

0 jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to myneur

For trending, that changes often based on number of recent reviews (I think), for most popular, the number of downloads but only the most recent version (I think), For categories, I think it has to do with number of downloads over time, includes review ranking and is divided based on app type (widget, watch face, etc), without considering version updates.

for most popular, if it was most popular and is then updated, it may have to climb back up, but that happens really fast. If you have 1m downloads, do an update, many of those 1m download the update automatically. You can see this when an auto migration to a new device occurs, where the store itself does an update to the app, and things move around in "most popular" for a few days as users are updating.

While is the app based store, you only may see 100 or watch faces in the "more" list for digital watch faces, also remember there are actually 1000's, and falling out of the first 100 can happen fairly fast.

0 myneur over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

By my experiences it doesn't re-appear fast. It takes many days.

Does anybody know what is the purpose of this reset? My only idea is that Garmin wanted to update the usage in time. But this is completely naive solution that favorizes clickbait apps that never updates that just gather downloads forever, although users are not using them over frequently maintained apps that looses download score with every update and even for couple of dates they got to zero.

0 jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to myneur

I was talking about apps that already have a high download count that still have a large user base.