I would actually. "Lists" of these types get stale after a while. Providing lusts along some defined attributes makes things interesting and can introduce one to something that would not make a typical best of list.
Netflix is doing it with their movie suggestion (ie. Strong female lead) and I'm sure they're not worried about being too "PC", though I'm sure some, somewhere have intimated at it.
There's some links in there to discussions of the same. The Quora discussion is starting to fill up with what I think is spam for services that don't exactly solve the problem, but it might be worth checking out.
Hilarious that this was just posted as I had to answer to it yesterday. Are we working together?
Here's an email I ended up sending yesterday in reply to a Google Page Speed Test report:
> We can address most of these issues with some further optimizations.
> One thing that will always appear in the Google Page Speed Test reports is the "Should Fix" issue with "Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content". This is a much discussed flag that Google returns that would really only work with non-modern websites, and a test that Google itself can't pass: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=....
First, I should mention that I'm glad to see this dismissive and negative comment voted to the top. I was starting to worry that HN was losing its edge.
Next, you mention:
> Yet it's a blazing success in the CMS space, because of 3 things that are insanely overlooked by other CMS developers :
- Ease of installation
- It runs on a minimal PHP/Apache/Mysql setup (cheap hosting)
- It has a great backward compatibly, unlike other solutions that break everything with each major version.
The actual, true and documented reason that WordPress has become a blazing success in the CMS space is the ease of use of the backend administration console. This comes from developer and client feedback in poll after poll of WordPress users and developers.
Regarding:
> If one compares with Drupal for instance, I mean with Drupal, a designer can go really really far without writing a single line of PHP code, aside from a few tags for templates(but it's really light). You have views, CCK and a lot of handy stuff.
I've heard Drupal developers themselves actually look to WordPress's method of having the option of handling these things in code/configuration as a net positive. It's trackable and portable.
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I've got to ask. If a builder of websites was looking for something that wasn't horrible and built by smart people, which one would that be?
> We had talks with potential partners, including VC firms and competing companies. This led us to Automattic, who had previously shown great interest in the popularity of WooCommerce. CEO Matt Mullenweg, who is also the co-founder of WordPress, had built his company in the same distributed manner as WooThemes with a team of over 300. This was our dream partner!
Here's a question: do you have any idea of what the first initial changes might be for developer/firms and how we work with WooCommerce/WooThemes/WooMatic?
This is definitely unexpected. I'm guessing Auttomatic + WooThemes + Jetpack + More? is WordPress's answer to fending off the Weebly, Shopify, Wix, etc..
The WordPress admin interface hasn't changed all that much over the years. Unless the change to a darker admin theme tripped you up, I'm not sure where anyone that has any experience using anything on the internet would have much problem getting anything done with it.