remove manual recommendations, tweak scoring and sorting #1494
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📝 Why & how
Based on the feedback lately we decided to remove last manually managed contributory to the scoring system, which was the "Recommended" tag, also known as "goldstar". In its place we expanded the scoring criterions based on combined popularity score, which takes in account the community size and usage stats.
Additionally, when using search query with no change to the default sort filter, which is "Relevance" we will now correctly use the score driven sort, instead of falling back to "Recently updated" order by mistake.
In the process I have also updated the locally stored data, so it reflects an actual shape of the object we use.
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