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by eitally 1008 days ago
Your site is really buggy in many ways (e.g. if you filter by make, then click one of the top level sorting modes, it shows the make filter is still applied but the sorting includes all makes). I poked around for about 10 minutes and found a number of these sorts of issues.

Separate from that, though, I find the Doug Score almost entirely useless because -- at least on your site -- it's impossible to separate the Weekend and Weekday scores. Those scores are almost orthogonal and I doubt anybody who's optimizing for one really cares a whole lot about the other. Or, perhaps they really care a lot about one specific element (say, comfort), but grouping comfort and practicality into the same aggregate score makes the score itself useless.

Additionally, I don't know why Doug scores on the "weekday" elements at all. Given the top many scores are all sportscars of some kind or another, the whole exercise is basically just to show a bunch of pretty pictures with accompanying [subjective] data that doesn't really mean anything.

That said, the picture catalogue is great. :)

1 comments

Yeah, the filtering was broken but I've fixed it. It should be much better now. I don't think the score is entirely useless. I also don't know why you would want to separate the daily and weekend scores. While I agree that anyone optimizing for one wouldn't care a lot about the other, there's no harm in knowing the other side of the coin. Most of the cars are sports cars but many are also everyday cars and for what its worth, it doesn't hurt to know what a sports car would score on daily use. In any case, thanks for taking the time to use the site. Appreciate the feedback!