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).
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.
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.
Reddit has subreddits that function as dedicated forums to post all sorts of links, questions, images, news,... concerning the specific topic of the subreddit. A subreddit that's an alternative to gaming related questions on Slant would be /r/gamingsuggestions, where users can ask other users for game recommendations, based on the preferences they describe.
People who ask questions on Reddit can interact with people who respond through reply threads. That way the users can discuss the topic as much as they want to. Other users can up- or downvote users' suggestions, so that the best responses or suggestions are the first you will read.
The learning curve is steep to gouge the sentiment in the room of any such subreddit, if the plan is to go there as a main source of recommendations/opinion/info: it is less accessible vs. automated sites that utilize algorithms to centralize and rank products/services based on scraped data.
Reddit users are entirely free to up-or downvote posts on subreddits. It may happen that you are on a very popular subreddit and get confronted with some gratuitous downvoters very early on. If that happens, the post containing the question may disappear quickly from the first pages of the subreddit and never receive a proper response.
Responses on reddit can sometimes be unnecessarily long or on the other hand just contain one word with no explanation. Some suggestions can be useless to the OP, but still receive upvotes. The reason for that is that users would often upvote those responses that they like most for themselves or think are funny.
Your question could easily get lost in a sea of memery, jokes, trolling, circlejerking, and general tangential discussion, since there is not a strict on-topic policy.
Reddit being an older community, has developed too many rules. Sometimes you might get banned from subreddits without even understanding what you had done wrong.
Like many communities with majority Linux users, some knowledge and way of proceeding (protocols broadly) remain obscure by outsiders who need a certain knowledge capital to dispense of context and "wikis" or tutorials.
GitHub is the largest host in the world for open source projects. Developers from all over the world fork and work on countless projects hosted on it.
GitHub's search box is a powerful tool that allows developers to find open source projects in areas they are interested in and where they can immediately start to contribute.
GitHub also has a page dedicated solely at exploring and finding open source projects, grouping them by each topic they cover. In the same view, GitHub displays trending repositories and sorting them by day, week or month.
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 where the people are is often important for further development, plugins and is also a indicator for quality of the product (because if there would be a much better option, one would have probably noticed and others were informed about it)
Google indexes all possible product reviews, blog posts, and comparison on the web. Using Google allows you to find reviews and comparisons for even obscure search queries where searching site-by-site for a product could be very time consuming.
While searching for comparisons, you will almost always get different sites in the search results. While variety is good, it makes comparing products very difficult as each website has their own tests and results don't always line up. Also, when making a direct side-by-side comparison it is harder as the information might be in different spots making it more time consuming than just using a single site (where information is typically laid out in a similar fashion).
Content is rated, and the best content is displayed first making it quick to find whatever you're looking for. As a side-advantage, for products you aren't familiar with you can usually click on the first few links and get good results instead of having to dig through multiple pages of results.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Since anyone can edit content on the site, the pace at which information changes are reflected on the site is not arbitrarily limited by the number of writers the site has.
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.
Context such as purpose, limitations, and situations change what options should be recommended and what pros and cons should be surfaced. For example, a comparison of Linux distributions for general use and Linux distributions for development will discuss the topics in different ways.
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.
This website seems to no longer be updated, as it lacks a few recent big releases (Need for Speed, DOOM, Far Cry Primal) and lists 2016 games like No Man's Sky, Orcs Must Die! Unchained or Mirror's Edge Catalyst as 'not released yet'.
Every game described on Gamecupid has a tab where a number of similar games are listed. This can easily amount to several dozens of games, each with their own Gamecupid page. They have a large database.
Gamecupid developed a layered pie-shaped system to describe the features of a game called the "feature rainbow". It is basically an interactive mindmap in a segmented circular shape. This feature does a great job to quickly find what you need to know about the features of the game.
While Gamecupid does a good job of informing the visitor of a game's features, it does not make any judgment of whether or not the features in question are done well or not. For instance if a game has issues with bugs, lag, long server downtimes, poor optimization or simply badly executed gameplay, the feature rainbow will not inform you of that. There is only an overall percentage that shows how many people recommend it, similar to the system used by Steam.
Every video game that's described on this website has a dedicated page with descriptions. Here one can find a description of the features, achievements on various platforms, a discussion tab where players can share their experiences and a list of games that are similar.
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