Multiple extensions not showing up or have wrong download counts

[ItsDrike]

• VSCode Version: 1.50.1
• OS Version: Linux x64 5.9.1-arch1-1

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Go to extensions menu
2. Search for a specific extension called Todo+
3. No such extension found
4. Go to online vscode marketplace where the extension shows up and it's quite popular
5. Copy the installation command
6. Use it in my local vscode and watch as nothing happens

Problem 2 (seems related, but I can open new issue if necessary):

1. Go to extensions menu
2. Search for the official Python extension
3. Look at the download count
   
4. Go to online vscode marketplace and check the real download count
   
5. Compare the numbers (78,701 - local, 26,553,865 - online marketplace)
6. Make sure it's the correct extension by checking the id ms-python.python

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

Description

I'm not sure why but I have just reinstalled my operating system (Arch Linux) and I've installed code repository

Since the moment I've opened it and tried to install my common extensions I was using before the reinstallation, I knew there was something wrong since I couldn't found a lot of my extensions, initially I simply assumed that they were removed but that seemed unlikely when it was more than 4 extensions, so I went to online marketplace and found them still active there, I tried using the installation command but nothing happened. A while later I looked up the Python extension and found that the download amount was nowhere near the actual amount, I figured out that there's something very wrong with the extensions in my vscode but I've no idea what and considering this is a fresh installation, I don't think it has to do with my OS

[tamuratak]

Duplicate of #107997. See #107997 (comment)

The count you see is the one of https://open-vsx.org/extension/ms-python/python.

[ItsDrike]

I've checked the comment you referenced and I understand now, but I still wonder if there's any way to switch it back without having to use outdated version

[sandy081]

#107997 (comment) says following

I was having this issue too, so I did a bit of digging. The change causing this was introduced in 1.49.1-1, in which the Arch packagers switched the marketplace to Open VSX. https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?id=b62a02ec645f16528c0269faf12e362a55efda75
A temporary workaround for this is to use the prior version: sudo pacman -U https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/c/code/code-1.49.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
The proper solution for this is to reach out to the extension's maintainers and ask them to publish to Open VSX. See https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2020/march/1.php (Ctrl + F for missing).

Closing this as not sure if there is any fix that can be done in VS Code.

@joaomoreno FYI - not sure if you have any ideas here.

[ItsDrike]

A possible way for vscode to fix this directly may be to add a direct option to choose which marketplace should be used as a command