On Saturday 18 October 2008 00:18:24 Jeff Davis wrote:
I'm not a developer, but I joined to make a humble suggestion in a place where someone might actually have the power to act on it.
Does anyone think it would be a good idea to split the Top 25 into two lists, one for games, and one for applications/other?
By my count, every item of the top 10 is a game. 22 out of the Top 25 are games or game-related.
I don't think it's necessarily true that more people are interested in running The Sims than iTunes, or that The Sims is or should be a higher priority than having iTunes working.
I think it gives the wrong impression of wine and its priorities, and makes a person feel a bit hopeless voting for an application no matter how many millions of people are users of that application on Windows. I think people would be more interested in voting for applications if they could get feedback on WineHQ.
Thoughts?
I wonder if we should perhaps just remove the AppDB voting system alltogether. As you said, it doesn't seem to be giving a good representation of users' interests.
Alexander N. Sørnes