[canyonero]

I'm with you. I've never found the "used by $BIG_NAME_COMPANY" to be influential for me at face value. But anecdotally, I think that level of marketing has been effective in getting devs to bring them up in that context. I've heard in meetings throughout my career, devs saying: "It's good enough for $BIG_NAME_COMPANY, it'd be good enough for us". That alone has influenced decision makers to at least consider it.

[dylan604]

Now, if the site uses the company logo in their list of $BIG_NAME_COMPANY that links to one of these discussed blog write ups, then I'd accept that as a useful quick glance way of promoting that info.

Otherwise, just a list of logos and/or company names does feel lazy and non-convincing to me.

[gabereiser]

I admire the use of php vars in your argument as most of these are Wordpress sites used to funnel folks to the actual software.