Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)
by Falkon1313 on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:03PM
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>Ironically, the thing I would appreciate most is a manually curated, Wikipedia inspired, hierarchical directory.
Those are subject to the limitations of hierarchies [1]. They don't work well beyond a quite small data set. And for a directory curated by someone else, you would need it to be someone that organizes things in exactly the same way as you would. Tagging and faceting can help a bit with that in the early stages of growth, but ironically you ultimately need a way to search the contents of the hierarchy.
Those are subject to the limitations of hierarchies [1]. They don't work well beyond a quite small data set. And for a directory curated by someone else, you would need it to be someone that organizes things in exactly the same way as you would. Tagging and faceting can help a bit with that in the early stages of growth, but ironically you ultimately need a way to search the contents of the hierarchy.
[1] https://wiki.c2.com/?LimitsOfHierarchies