[terminaltrove]

> discoverability (55) There were lots of comments about this, which all came down to the same basic complaint – it’s hard to discover useful tools or features! This comment kind of summed it all up:

> How difficult it is to learn independently. Most of what I know is an assorted collection of stuff I’ve been told by random people over the years.

This is all too true, the discoverability aspect is one of the reasons why we exist (0), and there is lots to improve here for discovering terminal tools, how to install and use them.

Also thanks for running this survey Julia.

Also, let us know on what we can improve on the site if you find Terminal Trove useful for you.

(0) https://terminaltrove.com/

[zxexz]

I checked out your site (excellent content and very, VERY useful), and I came back comment with what I think is similar feedback that other commenters have.

I would suggest a few things -

1. Less resource intensive site - I’m on my phone, and it took probably 5 seconds to load the front page, and then to actually get to the list, it took a few seconds more. I do not have a current gen phone, but I’d hazard a guess that my phone is about average in age as far as the potential user-base for this site goes! Do not discount mobile users, especially for a site focusing on CLI applications.

2. Maybe I care what language a CLI utility is written in sometimes (Albeit, I can’t recall a time when I have). I’d add a search in the front page, if well thought out. Or, honestly, I’d just have the front page be the list. People are great at lists, and generally quite good at reading, and your list has very well-written descriptions.

3. Kinda related to the above, but I think the categories view is effectively useless. The categories already appear in the description (and if they don’t, they probably should) - so why not just skip straight to the list? You could add a filter for the list if you want. Or, even better - a simple search box!

I’m only giving these criticisms as a means to (subjectively) improve your site, because overall I think it is very well done and thoughtful, without a lot of fluff. There are hundreds more I’d not have criticized, but only because they felt like a waste of time and dead weight. Keep up the good work!

[armanckeser]

Cool site! Personally, I think the weekly highlight is nice and all, but the value of an aggregator comes from categorization and searching, and I didn't see either on the site. I would love to see it's focus to be like selfh.st

[terminaltrove]

Thanks for the feedback,

We have categorization here:

https://terminaltrove.com/categories/

Is there anything we can improve here that can make this easier for you?

We will consider searching on the website, what would you search by or search for if this feature existed?