solid / solid/solidproject.org
Suggestions for use-solid/apps page
@Mitzi-Laszlo is already working on this.
Since Jan 18, 2020.
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Hi, I was suggested to try Solid in a HN thread, so I did and have some feedback.
First thing I tried after creating a pod was using some apps and it looks a bit messy. This kind of thing can discourage people from even trying, so I hope my suggestions would help to improve it:
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Currently most apps are using pods as a data storage, I feel like one of the main points of Solid is that it would be possible for apps to share data seamlessly with each other? Would be interesting to see such apps explicitly mentioned.
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Would be interesting to see links to people's real workflows with existing Solid apps, I think it shows people that the project is real and not just a sandbox. Perhaps comparisons with existing tools outside of solid, otherwise there is little insentive to seriously consider switching to Solid apps if you're already comfortable with the current tool you're using.
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There are quite a few apps in the list, with no apparent sorting/grouping. Would be great to group them by categories (e.g. Games/Productivity/Text editing/etc) and generate a table of contents.
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There are 10+ versions of "Dechat_". Are these just accidental?
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Would be nice to generally clean up the page from extra repetitive text, e.g.:
- "Source code" -> "Source"
- "MIT License Copyright (c) 2019 Licensors" -> "License: MIT". Specific license matters, but no one really cares about the year or licensors, and that can be looked up on github anyway.
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and make it more consistent: e.g. put license/source/author everywhere or remove it
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perhaps some inspiration for cleaner design can be borrowed from awesome-selfhosted readme
I can see it's slightly different on staging but not massively, so hopefully my suggestions still apply.
Hope it's not treated as criticism, happy to discuss and I accept some of things I mention are just my opinion!
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