What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Identify your current working folder in status bar
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 25 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| status bar | #320of 2,533 | #67of 885↓3 7d |
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
12 releases · first published May 2020
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Where Am I?’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.