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Weekly risers · 2026-W44

4 measured changes across distinct public sources, from the frozen weekly editions through 26 October 2026. Each is a reason to investigate, not proof of adoption or one shared trend.

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This is a selection of qualifying observations, not a top-five ranking across unlike metrics. Each card links to its frozen RiseFinder comparison and the original platform page. The dates are the observed readings, not a claim about when growth began or what caused it.

The week label identifies when the edition was created. Each comparison spans 5–10 days of observed history, not necessarily a completed Monday–Sunday week.

  1. 01 / App chart position

    StoryReel: Drama Shorts & TV

    StoryReel is a mobile app for watching short dramas, miniseries, and movies made for mobile viewing. Users browse genres such as romance, fantasy, revenge, and suspense, watch episodes in HD, and download available episodes for offline viewing. The app offers curated collections, search, personalized recommendations, and daily check-in rewards, with some content requiring coins or a subscription purchased through Apple's in-app purchase system.

    Change in the recorded metric

    Climbed 50 positions, from 59 to 9

    Observed 2026-10-19 → 2026-10-26 UTC.

    Limit: This is the best position across our tracked App Store charts, not necessarily the same country or chart at both readings. It does not show installs, active users or retention.

    Frozen weekly comparison →Original source ↗

  2. 02 / Package downloads

    @chat-adapter/github

    @chat-adapter/github is an npm package that provides a GitHub adapter for Chat SDK. It treats issue and pull request comments as messages and issues or pull requests as threads, letting a bot respond to @mentions in those comment threads. Configuration options are auto-detected from environment variables such as GITHUB_TOKEN, GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET, and GITHUB_BOT_USERNAME, and it supports authentication via a personal access token, a GitHub App, or Vercel Connect.

    Change in the recorded metric

    Rose from 74,161 to 121,377 weekly downloads (+47,216, 63.7%)

    Observed 2026-10-18 → 2026-10-24 UTC.

    Limit: These are rolling seven-day download totals at two observation dates, not extra downloads counted between the dates. CI and other automation can contribute; these are not unique users.

    Frozen weekly comparison →Original source ↗

  3. 03 / Model downloads

    LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B

    LiquidAI/LFM2.5-24B-A2B is a reasoning model built for fast, private agents that operate on-device. It is characterized as a 24B-parameter model that utilizes only 2B active parameters. This model represents the largest and final iteration within the LFM2.5 family. Its design focuses on providing efficient, private AI capabilities for local deployment.

    Change in the recorded metric

    Rose from 13,007 to 20,480 downloads (+7,473, 57.5%)

    Observed 2026-10-19 → 2026-10-26 UTC.

    Limit: These are the Hub's rolling download counts at two observation dates, not lifetime totals or extra downloads counted between the dates. Requests can include automation; the counts do not establish deployment or adoption.

    Frozen weekly comparison →Original source ↗

  4. 04 / Marketplace installs

    Mermaid

    Mermaid by Narva Software is a free Confluence Cloud app for creating diagrams from plain text. Users write diagrams in Mermaid.js syntax to produce flowcharts, sequence diagrams, UML, class, state, ER diagrams, Gantt charts, pie charts, and user journeys, which render natively in Confluence pages. It includes starter templates, a live preview, and matches Confluence's light and dark themes.

    Change in the recorded metric

    Rose from 684 to 815 installs (+131, 19.2%)

    Observed 2026-10-19 → 2026-10-26 UTC.

    Limit: An install count does not show active or paying customers.

    Frozen weekly comparison →Original source ↗

How to use this report

Investigate before interpreting

These are different measurements of attention or marketplace activity. They cannot be added into one score, and a larger percentage is not necessarily a stronger business signal. Open the original source, check whether the change persists, and look for independent evidence of use before drawing a conclusion.

We consider five source categories that RiseFinder already watches. Each needs a meaningful baseline and both an absolute and relative increase. After excluding entities in the last two published reports, we choose the largest qualifying relative change within each category; ties use the absolute change, then the entity key. A report appears only when at least three distinct categories qualify. This is an editorial selection, not exhaustive coverage of those platforms.

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