Guess it depends. If I buy a new car today, and keep it for 5 years, then I crash it into a wall and buy a new car after that, was the car then just an experiment or test to me?
Or was it a definitive decision?
Current sorting is a decision, not a test. It has been a test some weeks ago, and after that test showed a 5% higher conversion with best selling as default sort, envato decided to make that the new “normal”.
Here is the post that introduced the new (defintive) sorting:
Note that the term “over the next week” does not mean “during the next week”, it just says when they will switch this on, not that it will only be periodically.
Envato staff have said “Best Sellers default sorting is not here to stay forever”, which is surely correct, but didn’t mean that they will go back to newest items ever. They will rather do something completely different with the category pages but even that is not sure.
So if you say my car that I for sure will not keep forever is just me experimenting with it, then yes, this is just an experiment.
We can all wait for the new bought car to crash so that we have to buy a new one. But how long that will take, we will see.
As long as envato sees higher conversions (car is not crashing), they will stay with the current status quo. So waiting for things to change is maybe not the best option…
This sounds reasonable 