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by cgb_ 1476 days ago
I love the idea of these crowd-sourced systems, but is there any appetite to open source the data behind them?

In theory the collective knowledge of all of these platforms could converge on a single data-source that's freely available to analyse in any way we see fit, but more often the knowledge is behind the platform and ends up gated behind a Pro or commercial edition and the crowd is left to rebuild it again on some other platform...