On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes alex@thehandofagony.com wrote:
I'm not sure if we should remove the option for 'fully functional, requires hacks'. A lot of people come to the AppDB to find out how they can make their apps work, and are more interested in the end result as opposed to how to get there.
In practice, is there really enough difference between "fully functional" and "mostly functional" that we need another rating? People who only care about the end result would know that anything Silver or above will just about work.
I've seen Gold applied to software that is really "mostly functional, requires hacks", i.e. there are some other minor problems that can't be worked around (and Platinum for software with minor problems as well).
Then again, if we add a few more variables, we can express the ratings with radar charts. ;)
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