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by amanzi 37 days ago
Why do you need a toggle for "Active" services? Surely a curated list would remove services that are no longer active? My issue with this list, and many others like it, is that they appear to have very little curation and just turn into a dumping ground of links to any service. e.g. there is almost 50 services listed as "PaaS or CaaS" - are all of these really "awesome"? Same with the "Self-Hosted PaaS" section - how much curation has been done here? Some of them don't even appear to fit in this category.
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The reason I do not want to remove them and would rather mark them as defunct is that founders or companies have put time and effort into creating a PR. I would not just delete stuff but rather do due diligence on their status occasionally.

I would argue all products that people put effort into, build, try to market, and put in front of people are awesome.

People make PRs, I review them, and many a time companies themselves have categorized them in the PR. You can argue with me that they don't fit, but many a time these companies or the founders choose the categories.

I like the historical parts of it with defunct (like dotCloud became Docker). From my space (PHP cloud) a couple of historical ones are missing: Pagoda Box (now merged into DO), CloudControl, PHP Fog, AppFog … But those are gone for a while now.