Comments on post “Best Of Themes”
Sinan Ata
@sinanata · Crossover Turkey Country GM
Impressive usability features. Back then this service was dedicated to Joomla CMS only. I'm glad they decided to broaden their scope and share Best of Themes awesomeness with all platforms. This one has a long history and I had the privilege of working with both of the founders before. Keep up good work gents!
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Danial Taherzadeh
@danialtz · Founder @ BestofThemes.com
HI @sinanata, glad to see you around again! This is one of those projects that you have the first commit x years ago and then not much in between. Still, the most important is that the v1 is delivered.
To elaborate why it took so long time: we had real technical challenge of having high quality screenshots of internal pages of a platform at scale, both processing power and storage, and user experience limitations of browsing themes quickly but yet having a chance to look in detail on fly. One cannot take screenshots of 100 themes a day manually, period. But at the same time you cannot also browse all the pages of a theme and take automatic screenshots; you spend much more time fixing the errors than adding a few, since each theme structure is different (e.g. commerce demos with thousands of inner links vs a portfolio page). So, we had to employ state-of-the-art Machine Learning models to curate the themes, and a distributed system to handle all the image data and processing.
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Sinan Ata
@sinanata · Crossover Turkey Country GM
@danialtz sums up to value added service, congratz.
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Aliyar
@aliyarf · Founder @ Best of Themes
@sinanata Thank you Sinan. Glad to see you again.
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