✨ Feature Suggestion | Comprehensive software comparison page #2344
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While having a clean interface that can suggest one, two, or three software applications for a specific purpose is a great idea for those looking to start in the world of privacy, I'd like to see some more information for advanced users. This comes from my frustrating search to find and categorize all the privacy-focused messaging applications out there, turns out there are quite a few of them, they all have trade-offs, and a lot of these trade-offs can only be found in the nitty-gritty like whitepapers, technical documents, and git issues (including many discussions on this repo!). Instead of just having a user being told whats best for them, what if we include another page that goes into the details of these different software specifications and scorecard them like what the EFF used to do. While other pages exist that include their own scorecards, they are scattered, they lack certain markers, they lack certain software to compare, and most importantly they are not open-source for contribution. This page doesn't have to be front and center, but just an extra page to create a standing catalogue of what is out there and help advanced users determine what is the most private and anonymous software for their threat-model.
I was beginning to create my own page for this information with a table to display at the top, citations to each claim, and possibly an appendix for more complex discussion matters (#2293). However I'd rather contribute to an existing well-known project that have another small independent one where it may not get as much contribution.
Here is a sample unfinished scorecard for messaging platforms: https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/edit/CUkoArq1ja21SWr7rQBPeRg7/
IMHO (and I'm not part of PTIO team, just an infrequent contributor), such a scoreboard leads to several issues:
Don't get me wrong, it's great such scoreboards exist and I certainly find them, such as yours, very useful and helpful (thank you for sharing!), but I don't think that it's in PTIO's interest or philosophy to include them. But that's only my opinion.
As someone who is a part of the PrivacyTools team, I reiterate @lrq3000's points.
We're currently facing some large scale organisational problems, which is why there is such as backlog. Hopefully things will be resolved soon, and we can all get back to working on the site.
As for this issue, I'll be closing it - but feel free to discuss further, and mention me if you have any incredible ideas.