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I agree with you on several parts,And there have actually been some decent attempts which i regularly use [1],[2]. I find it fascinating how people use Github
by shade23 11y ago
I agree with you on several parts,And there have actually been some decent attempts which i regularly use [1],[2].
I find it fascinating how people use Github to maintain curated lists.
But I find list-making as an art in itself.It requires the curator to be able assimilate information in bite sized packets which are informative enough. As a rule,I feel that the size of each list item should inversely proportional to the size of the list.
Collaborated and community curated lists are a god-send.
Stack-Overflow also maintains really good lists/community articles.
But then think about the lists which are a single person's hardwork or maybe a group of people being paid to do so. A list need not necessarily be objective and can also provide the curator's views.
This can be good or bad dependent on breadth of the curators knowledge.
Lists(like really well written articles) are often the result of extensive data analysis which is why lists like those provided by WSJ and WGSN[3] are paid/exclusive services.
[1]:https://github.com/wasabeef/awesome-android-ui https://github.com/wasabeef/awesome-android-ui
[2]:https://github.com/vsouza/awesome-ios https://github.com/vsouza/awesome-ios
[3]:http://www.wgsn.com/en/ http://www.wgsn.com/en/
- meesterdude 11y ago> As a rule,I feel that the size of each list item should inversely proportional to the size of the list. What are you talking about? That seems completely nonsensical. if I have a list with 100 items, i'm not going to restrict each list item to two words, or two paragraphs, if the verbosity is needed. That is completely detached and separate from the role of lists. If thats how you like to do your lists that's certainly your choice, but a rule? seems a bit much.
- shade23 11y agoYou can obviously append extra details separately,but if someone gave you a 100 page list which contains every possible detail of every item.Then would you read it? Would you use a dictionary which contained everything etymology to usage and derivations on the same section for each and every word? EDIT : And yes that is definitely not a rule I would enforce on someone else,but it is a 'guideline' i enforce on myself while reading/making lists