I think PH suffers from an identity crisis.<p>It started off as a curated newsletter and became a portal. It never fully embraced a community-driven approach (as evidenced by their opaque curation policy) nor a pivot to a more search engine&#x2F;yelp-like community. In essence, they have yet to conquer their scalability problem: how to maintain quality while increasing quantity of products. It&#x27;s a bloomin&#x27; hard problem to be fair to them.<p>What I am most disappointed by is that with network effects, it is beneficial for a community as a whole to have one dominant portal. The one thing you want for a dominant community platform is transparency (there&#x27;s an argument for decentralization too), a requirement that has yet to be met.