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score 87 · Answer 1

Slant.co

Top Pro

Community rated answers

Unlike a number of other Q&A sites where the person asking the question picks the winning answer, Slant accepts that they're asking because they don't know the answer, so they allow everyone in the community to pitch in by upvoting the best answer. See More

Top Con

Primarily for comparing products

Slant is a great website for comparing products to each other, but if your question isn't about products, the limits of Slant's format start to show more clearly. See More

Top Pro

Pros and cons vs users' answers

Most Q&A sites give each user the chance to give an answer (sometimes multiple answers). A lot of the content of each user's answers will overlap, resulting in duplication of information (thus more to read), or information being lost in noise (e.g. if someone sees existing answers and adds a missing point without copying existing information, their point will likely languish at the bottom of the list of answers as it did not answer the majority of the question). Slant approaches this differently; rather than focusing on the users, it focuses on the points; Pros and Cons. Any user may amend the information in a pro/con, may vote based on how much that pro/con influenced their decision, and may add their own pros and cons if certain points are missing from the canon. See More

Top Con

Can be quite biased

For example, this one here: https://www.slant.co/topics/1196/~q-a-websites-for-subjective-questions See More

Top Pro

Pro/con association

When upvoting existing answers, you can associate the pros and cons which influenced your choice of chosen answer(s). See More

Top Con

Maturity

The site is still young and has yet to build up the large user base required to have users with knowledge of all areas in which questions may be asked. See More

Top Pro

Multiple chosen answers

Subjective questions may have more than one answer. Slant allows people to vote for more than one answer as being correct, and to append the pros and cons which influenced their decision to their vote; thus giving a context of in which situations each answer may be considered correct. See More

Top Con

Needs improvements to avoid redundancy

Many questions can lead to the same app. Example: https://www.slant.co/topics/4648/~es-file-explorer-alternatives-for-android https://www.slant.co/topics/1956/~file-explorers-on-android. If you comment something on "Total Commander", you have to do this in more than one place. According to this the Slant team is working on this issue. See More

Top Pro

See all answers clearly

An enumeration of recommendations is easily viewed as a list, making it a good starting point for researching available options. This is the opposite of other sites in which multiple choices may be listed within a single answer, with the need for the user to read through paragraphs of information to pick out the key articles. See More

Top Con

Has strange ads

Drug and gambling ads are a huge turnoff. See More

Top Pro

Designed for subjective questions

Slant.co's reason for being is to answer subjective questions. It was born with the knowledge that other sites existed to handle objective questions and answers, but they made no attempt to handle the intricacies of subjective answers. Slant.co is the only site focused on solving this specific area. See More

Top Con

Fake and dated ratings

Some ratings seem fake and many of the top lists seem very outdated listing products years and years old when there are better modern alternatives. Probably paid rankings. See More

Top Pro

Pros and Cons don't travel from question to question

If you see a new question and choose to add an option already recommended in another question, you need to add all pros and cons from scratch. See More

Top Pro

Public visibility

You do not need to have an account to view existing content (questions or answers). People can see what they're getting into before deciding if they'd like to sign up for an account and contribute to the site. See More

Top Pro

Continuously updated for relevance

Since recommendations and pros / cons can be updated by community members, content evolves to reflect modern standards. See More

Top Pro

Subject matter: programming tools, services, & technology

The site is currently dedicated to questions within the technology area. It is implied that as popularity grows it may open up to questions in other subject areas (ref: use of "Starting with..." on their Twitter profile). See More

Top Pro

Allows Google independent rating for Android apps

It can be difficult to get user-ratings for Android apps that are not available on the Google Play Store. So far other sites either indirectly use Google Play Store rankings or some technical writer tells you "which are the best XXX apps for YYY". See More

Top Pro

Unbiased information you can trust

Slant isn't financially tied to any products listed on it. All the categories (organized into 'questions'), products (organized as 'options'), and pros/cons are added, and edited by real users - there is no way for a company to pay to have a favorable review (and if they try to do it themselves, the community can report (flag) or edit any false claims). See More

Top Pro

Subjective claims have to be backed up with evidence

Each subjective statement needs to be backed up with objective information. An opinion has to be backed up with facts. An evidence for a claim on Slant can be provided with examples, sources, and facts. See More

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score 33 · Answer 2

Reddit

Top Pro

Variety of freelance and salaried positions

There is a good variety of job types so you're able to find what fits your schedule and lifestyle best. See More

Top Con

Not specifically a job board

Reddit is not specifically a job board, so may lack some of the features you're looking for (such as a strong search feature). See More

Top Pro

"For hire" posts get a lot of attention

Where many of the current remote job boards are specifically for employees looking to apply to positions, reddit is a good place to post "for hire" ads and allow the employers to contact you. See More

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score 11 · Answer 3

FileDiffs

Top Pro

Allows you to open diffs in external diff tool

Instead of creating a new tab with the diff in it, you can tell FileDiffs to open the diff in an external diff tool for side by side comparison and other features. See More

Top Con

Doesn't have side by side comparison

After running FileDiffs, it creates a new diff file in a new tab, which doesn't have the benefit of showing the diffs in context. However, it is possible to open the diff in an external diff tool instead of creating a new tab. See More

Top Pro

Easily compare arbitrary code sections

FileDiffs allows you to compare any arbitrary text through multiple commands: Compare the current file or selection with any other file via a file select menu Compare the current file or selection file with previously selected tab or window or panel Compare the current file or selection with your clipboard Compare between two selections through Sublime Text's multi-select feature See More

Top Pro

Command pallet integration

In addition to providing shortcut commands for custom shortcuts, FileDiffs adds new command pallet entries. If you don't use diffs often enough to warrant memorizing a new shortcut command, the command pallet provides a quick and easy way to access the plugin. See More

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score 71 · Answer 4

AlternativeTo

Top Pro

Comprehensive

Full website with lots of content, info, users, comments, etc. Value for free. See More

Top Con

Limited details available on the site itself

AlternativeTo excels at showing you options, however it doesn't really tell you why one option is better/worse than another. It lists options by the number of likes it has received, but to directly compare the options is relatively hard to do. See More

Top Pro

Easy to skim through content

AlternativeTo makes it easy to quickly find stuff. The lists are organized by likes which floats the best content to the top, and helpful tags warn you of undesirable attributes (such as the product being discontinued or if it includes bundleware). See More

Top Pro

Filtering and sorting capabilities

The ability to filter by platform and license means that you can easily filter out software that you can't use. More specific filters and sort orders are also available. See More

Top Pro

Straightforward

Pages load much faster and there is less annoying bling bling. See More

Top Pro

Tag based instead of individual Questions

It is tag based so there are less duplicates. See More

Top Pro

Has a lot of information about products easily accessible

Top Pro

Shows all options

If you have a large list(~100) on slant only the first ~15 entries are displayed - even if you click see full list. See More

Top Pro

Better usability

Slant is really terrible by design. See More

Top Pro

Less JavaScript

Which drastically improves the sites performance. See More

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Less manipulation

Less manipulation with guest/fake accounts. See More

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Does not use redirectingat

It does not use redirectingat so links won't break if you use an ad or tracker blocker . See More

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score 2 · Answer 5

What If? HQ

Top Pro

Allow any type of question

They allow users to ask any type of question, including questions about school, books, memes, products, feedback, and much more. See More

Top Pro

SEO value

Offers dofollow links, which help to boost seo. See More

Top Pro

Really great community

The people are really kind and helpful See More

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score 58 · Answer 6

Quora

Top Con

No customization options

There is no way of making your Quora blog different from any other Quora blog. It is only an extension of your Quora profile. See More

Top Pro

Tags help promote your content

When you tag your blog post, it will show up in feeds of people following that topic. See More

Top Pro

Community interested in learning

Quora has a built-in audience interested in learning new things. See More

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score 5 · Answer 7

StackExchange

Top Con

Objective; Not Subjective

The Stack Exchange sites are specifically designed to work for objective questions; questions with subjective answers are explicitly discouraged. See their blog for more information. See More

Top Pro

Popularity / maturity

The Stack Exchange sites have a large user base. Due to this being broken down to sub-sites per topic however some of their sites have more users than others, so depending on the subject matter of the question this pro may not apply. See More

Top Con

Limited in scope

There is a large number of different "stackexchanges", but they are all completely closed off from one another. See More

Top Pro

Subject Matter: Various (site specific)

Whilst sites under the Stack Exchange banner are focussed on specific topics, there are a wide variety of such sites. As such Stack Exchange could be described as being open to questions on any subject matter, but has the advantage that within its sub-sites, questions are targeted to the specific users/audiences of those sites. See More

Top Con

Intolerant and immature culture of the community

The people on the platform aren't very outgoing or accepting of others. See More

Top Pro

Expert-level questions & answers

Many topics have active members who are among the top professionals in their fields. MathOverflow, for example, has Fields Medal winners. See More

Top Con

Popularity contest feeling

The reward system feels like you're in a popularity contest. While this encourages good answers, it feels like everything is built around the reward system. So much that, you need to have certain points to unlock features on the site. See More

Top Pro

User ratings by topic

Users are scored based on their contributions, with the context of those contributions also being scored (i.e. answering a question tagged as being about XML increases that user's XML score). This results in allowing the questioner to gauge a rough idea of the answerer's relative knowledge within a domain when considering their answers vs contradictory answers from other users. See More

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score 0 · Answer 8

TOPAttack

Top Pro

Lots of detailed specifications

On the lists, there are detailed tables that show the specifications of all of the products. If a product has a certain feature, there is a checkmark in that box. If the spec is numerical, they list the specific number there (for example, in the best PDF printers & creators list, each product was tested twice for both the conversion speed and PDF file size, and both numerical results are listed. See More

Top Con

Very limited database

TOPAttack only focuses on software and appliances, and the products seem to be submitted from a single user which limits the scope of each list. See More

Top Pro

Glanceable information

Every list has a ranking of the products, and a bar graph at the top of the list quickly shows which products are good and which are not based on their rating. You can also sort the graph by different factors - for example, when looking at the best front load washers you can sort by things like washing capacity, energy cost & efficiency, spin speed, and more with just the click of a button. See More

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