Replace "Redecentralize Radar" with a better reviews system

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A place to organize redecentralize.org, in a decentralized way, of course. Share ideas & add proposals in 'Issues', start contributing by picking up a ticket you care about and say you're planning to work on it and how. Send pull requests!

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Replace "Redecentralize Radar" with a better reviews system #3

Open frabcus opened 6 years ago

frabcus commented 6 years ago

Reviewing the various decentralized products from a user point of view still feels really important in 2018.

When I tried doing Radar a year or two ago, there just weren't enough products meeting the standards I set - including usable apps on all common platforms.

I'm not sure we need such standards, it's still a market at a very early adopter face. Sharing learnings from trying out products, even very early ones, feels important.

Questions

Who should write reviews? I think for quality it probably needs an editor, or small team who are into doing them. But can take contributions in whatever format we choose.
Should there be ratings? They'll help filter down to projects that are worth trying. What 3 or so things would we rate each app on?

The reviews on Radar (https://redecentralize.org/radar/) are quite simple, suspect people want something a little bit longer than that. But then definitely needs scoring to find the good stuff.

rossjones commented 6 years ago

Should definitely re-distribute the work ;) Encouraging everyone to contribute reviews, either on their own blog (and linked from re-d) or hosted on re-d seems like a good approach.

If you can convince people to follow a particular style of review, e.g. please cover the following items in your review... it might make it easier to just tag the posts with the radar tag?

In terms of reviewing the reviews, we definitely need to give more people access to the github org/repo - who?

@frabcus What does a good review look like? What things should it cover? Usability, Branding, Funding/Plan?

Polarisation commented 6 years ago

This would be really useful. As someone who'd like to learn more about what is out there and usable, I can learn something by looking at the website for a distributed app, but this information is usually written to promote a product and therefore does not discuss pros and cons. Often the concept behind the app is promoted but the current experience of the app may be quite different, so a directory with impartial reviews would help.

It would helpful to have a "getting started" section for each app, if I've read a review and I'm convinced I want to try the app out. This might just be a link to a good tutorial on the developer's website, but it might cover any difficulties that the reviewer experienced, or recommendations about configuring the app. The idea being to make it as simple as possible to discover a distributed app in the directory, read about what it does and how well it does it, then start using it.