poll [image] Remove Non-Hardened Firefox / Firefox Without Arkenfox Tool Suggestions Personally, I think worth mentioning recommendations need to make a return to the site, at least to certain categories. Being unwilling to guide people when it comes to options…

One more thing I’d add to clarify, is that honorable mentions that don’t meet the minimum criteria would still have caveats, like LibreWolf’s inconsistent updates or 1Password being proprietary for example.

I think the problem frequently identified is that information about why a tool isn’t listed isn’t easily found. I wonder if we could have a central wiki post here on the forum that’s just a list of notes/citations about other tools to serve as a reference point. It would be useful for quickly findi…

[image] anon11657877: like LibreWolf’s inconsistent updates Are they actually inconsistent? Why hasn’t someone ever made a date table for it like I did all the Android forks?

Any time I’ve looked in the past it was trivial to see just from their latest releases, but I haven’t looked again recently. Probably not a bad idea to track how they’re trending.

That could be a great contribution for anyone interested in authoring that. But how accessible would that be for people searching for this information? Wouldn’t it be buried under other topics as time progresses?

I’d want to make it first and see how useful it actually is, but we could probably give it some visibility on the main website. If each category had a wiki post detailing the unlisted competition we could link to those posts with a button at the bottom of each category page.

Having a central wiki post wouldn’t be a bad idea to keep up with tools that have since been removed or rejected, but wouldn’t it be redundant with the forums and Github? If this were to happen, I’d suggest a “for advanced users” section for tools that weren’t user-friendly enough for PG to recomme…

[image] anon11657877: “for advanced users” section for tools that weren’t user-friendly enough for PG to recommend but still meet the criteria. What tools are you referring to? I did not realize there were categories that had some sort of user friendly criteria outside of the UX not being tot…

[image] anon83428815: What tools are you referring to? Pretty much any CLI tool which got removed at one point despite there being nothing wrong about it, and Alpine and Gentoo Linux.

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Personally, I don’t think this is necessary. Even after I’ve reading everything, this post still stands. Specifically:

Either we recommend something and can provide concrete reasons as to why, or we shouldn’t recommend it at all.

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