"JoAnne65;c-16656842" wrote:
Anyway, my point, what does ‘popular’ and ‘Maxis approved’ mean, when it’s not “amazing and great quality”? Many followers, I get that, but I’d have thought people who build amazingly will get many followers? Or is there no connection? As a Gallery user more than a Gallery supplier I’m very interested in that.
Not everyone who makes great builds gets tons of followers automatically. I've seen quality builders who didn't have as many as you'd expect. The issue is that now the exposure is harder to get for players without an established follower-base who upload quality things, but don't get seen because the galley is sorted by "Popular Now". Several of us have seen evidence since the update that Newest was in fact one of the main ways people saw and downloaded your work, but now that the default is different and people don't bother to switch, not nearly as many are looking at the newer uploads.
And, another issue is that the things in Popular Now aren't changing very frequently since the update, because they just stay popular due to people continuing to download them since it's the first thing they see. I checked it twice a day apart, and I would say it stayed about 60-75% the same stuff.
