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New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS

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Re: New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS

#21

for the buttons to open the remote pages... it would be nice if these were link-buttons with the actual url and rel="nofollow" so that I can explicitely right-click and open in a new tab as opposed to clicking through, which is kind of the same... but without navigating the the new tab.

Just updated it. What do you think?

Re: New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS

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post #18

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 Surely a curated list would remove services that are no longer active?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…

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 the…

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.

Re: New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS

#23

for the buttons to open the remote pages... it would be nice if these were link-buttons with the actual url and rel="nofollow" so that I can explicitely right-click and open in a new tab as opposed to clicking through, which is kind of the same... but without navigating the the new tab.

Just updated it. What do you think?

Much better, thanks.
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