On or Off topic: Is wordpress good for such a type of site

Question

I'm wondering if a question like this would be on topic, or would be better suited elsewhere:

I want to make a site that has this and does this. Is Wordpress a good or okay choice for this?

Answer 1

WordPress can be used to build any kind of site, but is it good for your use case? I believe this is an opinion based question, and is thus offtopic

That's not to say it's a bad question, but it's a discussion topic rather than something with a concrete answer.

Rare exceptions would be nuclear safety protocols, Rocket engine controller software, micro-controller firmware, all of these would have a concrete answer of no

Answer 2

That wouldn't be a good question for our site, because the answer can be just a yes or no, depending on the opinion of the answering person.

A better approach would be to ask: How can I solve this task with WordPress? That might still be too broad, but if you do your homework first and explain the specific problems that you couldn't solve with your own research, it might be on topic and get good answers.

Answer 3

I would formulate like this — it would be a decent question if you can provide enough details for a definitive conclusion.

Note that in most cases it's simply impossible requirement to achieve. It might take quite a bit of research (more so for less experienced WP developers) to estimate is it a reasonable fit.

And dev, experienced with WP, would likely not need to ask such general questions, but would ask about specific implementation challenges.

In a nutshell — unlikely to be a good question, with rare exceptions.