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I can't speak directly for the programmer market, but this exact thing happened when steam opened the floodgates with greenlight. i used to browse the catalog t

• derefr 10y ago
  In my mind, that's just an argument for curation. There's no reason you can't let developers have their cake (i.e. have something up on Steam) while consumers eat it too (i.e. have a default view of Steam that hides all the crap games.) I mean, direct-linking to things from a product site is still a thing; and—due to Steam technically being a website—discovery by search-engines indexing the page is still a thing. But also, there's no reason there can't be things like "App Store channels" where you can subscribe to a given app reviewer's "view of the world" (i.e. a store scope containing only the stuff they like, and—with less weight—the stuff the people they follow like, recursively); and then browse those, or a front-page that's the union of those. You could even automatically generate such channels from existing app-review sites/Youtube channels/whatever.
  • Armisael16 10y ago
    How do you expand that to a bookstore or an employement market without functionally denying the existence of some books/people? The problem is that you're increasing the workload on everyone who wants to use that market by forcing them to filter out more crap.