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Requesting recommendations for particular apps is not a good fit for this site. These are essentially "shopping questions", which are disallowed on other Q&A sites for good reasons. These rea...
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#1: Initial revision
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Olin Lathrop
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2021-11-14T13:54:59Z (about 3 years ago)
Requesting recommendations for particular apps is not a good fit for this site. These are essentially "shopping questions", which are disallowed on other Q&A sites for good reasons. These reasons have been discussed at great length elsewhere, but briefly, the drawbacks of such questions are:<ol> <li>The answers go out of date fast. They become useless, even damaging, to the long term archive of knowledge. <li>There are usually many valid approaches. Distinguishing which is best requires more detailed specification of the problem than the type of users that ask such questions write. <li>Even with detailed specification, the importance of various attributes are judgement calls, which are often highly personal. <li>The votes end up creating a popularity contest, not a list of alternatives sorted by merit. Those who have found a way to solve the problem have gotten used to their way, are comfortable with it, and often resist alternatives. </ol>