Thanks for the feedback, I agree. I hadn't gotten around to adding an Explore page. There haven't actually been many users so it'd be mostly my topics and topics from some small group discussions I've hosted, but would be good to have more for people to see.

It's not exactly IBIS, but inspired for sure. IBIS I think is better for modeling a live discussion, it's almost an append-only structure (to model back-and-forth), whereas Ameliorate's structure (the core is concepts with cause & effect relations) is intended to have new information integrated without duplication (which can be more annoying to do live because it can involve modification rather than appending).

Ameliorate models questions and arguments, but they're more auxiliary (modeled as being _about_ a cause or effect) than in IBIS, where they're pretty central. Questions in Ameliorate are more "unknowns" than "core questions we are trying to answer".

If you see my root-level comment in this post, I mention refining the Ameliorate ontology (ameliorate-v2) which elevates questions to first-class (to address the issue where it's hard to know where to look in the diagram, without questions to identify motivation). You might also be interested in my ontology playground in that comment if you want to see an IBIS > mermaid pipeline.

I can only hope this is a joke to ask for an explanation of a product that breaks down complex problems into clear pieces.

If you have a problem that's hard to think through or agree on with someone else, this app can help you make a (cause & effect) diagram to understand it better. Use numbers (scores) to show others how important you think something is (nodes) or how much you think something causes another thing (edges). You can add reasons (supports/critiques) to justify your numbers, and tradeoffs (criteria) to compare options for dealing with the problem. The app can show where you disagree with people or what people think are most important (generated views).

I might need LLM help to figure out how to explain to a 5 year old haha.

Appreciate the feedback. I had played around with defaulting scores/justification showing vs not showing mainly because in a big diagram it can add clutter, hadn't been solid on that though.

Regarding styling edge types: Yes and I think it's a good idea. I think there are some things I haven't tried yet, but I added logic gates https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate/issues/785 (More Actions Menu > Preferences > Edges > Use semantic arrow shapes) and there's an open ticket for using colors to convey good/bad https://github.com/amelioro/ameliorate/issues/836. Thickness is another thing that potentially could be played with, thicker being higher score? Hadn't gotten to that.