The entire Stackexchange network, in my opinion, suffers badly from fragmentation into hyper-specific Q&A sites. Why software recommendations do not fall under the Superuser purview is beyond me.
Super user has difficulty with recommendations too. The effort upon the community to curate the content on a large site takes a very dedicated team. Past efforts to have such failed and the curation of the question dropped off along with its quality.
Moving software recommendations to its own site allowed a community to form there that was engaged with that curation.
That said, I believe the SO engine fails spectacularly with recommendations. I find https://slant.co to be a better resource that has its engine dedicated to recommendations (rather than Q&A).
Moving software recommendations to its own site allowed a community to form there that was engaged with that curation.
That said, I believe the SO engine fails spectacularly with recommendations. I find https://slant.co to be a better resource that has its engine dedicated to recommendations (rather than Q&A).