How packs are sorted on the technicpack site

[Hammerson]

Evan Miller had an article on wrong ways to sort a couple of years back:

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html

The platform only has thumbs up, not thumbs down, but it's still fairly clear to me it sorts in a bad way. Those top packs aren't necessarily the best packs ever, they're just very, very entrenched at the top of that list. I'd like to find a pack that uses 1.6, has reasonably good feedback (to avoid those packs that barely sort out id collisions), and maybe which has a few mods I especially like. It's currently very hard to do something like that on the platform. Sorting by new or recently updated is no use either, as you have to dig through pages of test packs to find anything interesting. It would also be nice if packs had a way to declare (other than in the docs) what mods they used and what versions, so that it was searchable.

I think the discovery mechanism for new packs is Technic's only real weakness. On all other points - stability, incremental downloads, ease of configuration, not trampling your config files, etc. the Technic launcher is far superior to that other one you know.

[jwa1]

The current system also encourages modpack creators to make fake account to +1 their modpack, since new modpack are near impossible to find.