As described in [1] when accessing the url https://open-vsx.org/api/-/search?orderBy=downloadCount&sortOrder=desc&query=lens the results are not sorted by download count like I would expect them to be.

1. vsix-lens" - downloadCount 1288
2. "errorlens" - downloadCount 306985
3. "vscode-versionlens" - downloadCount 56205
4. "hoverlens" - downloadCount 1362

Supposedly this worked in the past. Right now the sorting seems to only work if there is no query parameter.

[1] eclipse-theia/theia#15812 (comment)