Hi Tyler. Not trying to discourage you because I find these kinds of sites fascinating, just wanting to give some constructive feedback.
1) The card-like layout of your site might not be the best one for a ranking service. Cards are good for physically taking up the least screen real-estate when you have different size text and images, but sort of feel visually off and jumbled for strictly ordering stuff.
2) The main thing about your site that bothers me is the same thing that bothers me about Google: the opaqueness of the algorithm. Say that I search for a specific genre of movies and find the "best" ones. Best according to who or what? Maybe you have the greatest and most sophisticated system that the world has, but not knowing anything about the reason for sorting leaves me rather uncomfortable.
3) I wonder how much consistency and caching might be possible for a site like this. I searched for Presidents and US Presidents, and got slow and wildly different search results both times.
Thank you for checking it out, and for your feedback. You can't really discourage me anymore than I already am. XD
1. I see your point, and will think on it.
2. This is a tough one. On one hand we want people to trust us, but on the other, we don't want people easily gaming the site.
3. I agree. Consistency is lacking and this is on our todo list. (How the hell did Trump make it on both lists!? Clearly lots of work to do)
> How the hell did Trump make it on both lists!? Clearly lots of work to do
1) For what it's worth, I'm not personally offended by this kind of mild joke. But making this kind of joke is probably not the way to become seen as the most trusted and impartial platform. You're not doing anything to set my mind at ease that you'd never put your thumb on whatever algorithm you have.
2) As for why somebody might like Trump? We recently had an era of relative peace and prosperity. Kind of hard to be up in arms about a few mean tweets when the world is heading closer to a new Cold (or even Hot) War and the wheels are falling off the economy. You of course don't have to agree with me about that, but as somebody with a ranking site, you ought to recognize that there are perspectives which can make you have radically different opinions with others.
1) The card-like layout of your site might not be the best one for a ranking service. Cards are good for physically taking up the least screen real-estate when you have different size text and images, but sort of feel visually off and jumbled for strictly ordering stuff.
2) The main thing about your site that bothers me is the same thing that bothers me about Google: the opaqueness of the algorithm. Say that I search for a specific genre of movies and find the "best" ones. Best according to who or what? Maybe you have the greatest and most sophisticated system that the world has, but not knowing anything about the reason for sorting leaves me rather uncomfortable.
3) I wonder how much consistency and caching might be possible for a site like this. I searched for Presidents and US Presidents, and got slow and wildly different search results both times.