What a VS Code verified publisher badge means, compared with Open VSX →
Advanced VSCode user interface customizations. Very experimental.
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.
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 | — | #700of 883↓15 7d |
VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
75 releases · first published Jun 2019
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Customize UI’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.