What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
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Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 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 |
|---|---|---|
| comments | #9of 1,181 | #9of 678↓1 7d |
| cpp | #587of 1,308↓4 7d | #129of 228↓6 7d |
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VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
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Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Better Comments Next’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.