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balance featured sort
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modules/routes/levels.ts
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modules/routes/levels.ts
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let orderClause: string;
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if (sort === "featured") {
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// Featured sort: featured levels first, then by quality score (favorites + plays) and recency
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// Quality score: favorites weighted more heavily, plus plays divided by 10
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orderClause = `featured DESC, (favorites * 2 + plays / 10.0) DESC, created_at DESC`;
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// Featured sort: featured levels first, then by a combined score
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// Score combines recency (heavily weighted) with quality (favorites > plays)
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// Recency weight: 1 point per day since epoch, quality: favorites * 100 + plays
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// This ensures recent levels rank higher than old popular ones
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orderClause = `featured DESC, (created_at / 86400.0 + favorites * 100 + plays) DESC`;
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} else {
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const orderColumn = sort === "recent" ? "created_at" : sort === "favorites" ? "favorites" : "plays";
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orderClause = `${orderColumn} ${orderDirection}, id ${orderDirection}`;