This is somewhat tangential but I was hoping the hive mind here might have some good ideas. Does anyone know of a modern equivalent -- of course, as equivalent

This is somewhat tangential but I was hoping the hive mind here might have some good ideas. Does anyone know of a modern equivalent -- of course, as equivalent as it can be in a world where shareware isn't quite what it was -- to these infamous shareware CD-ROMs (e.g. http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/640_studio_v/index.html http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/640_studio_v/index.html )? Or, to make it somewhat easier for younger (!?) audiences, of a modern-ish equivalent to Freshmeat.net? By this, I mean something that would include: a) New software (either newly-written programs or new versions of programs), or at least news about new software b) In a somewhat organised fashion? A humongous part of what I know today originated in tinkering with programs like these, from various fields, or from digging around things like the NightOwl archive ( http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/nightowl-007/index.html http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/nightowl-007/index.html ), reading source code, wondering how various demos are made and so on. And, of course, later, from browsing Freshmeat. The best I can do right now is bookmark a bunch of search pages on Github and Gitlab, visit a bunch of subreddits like /r/linux which will probably give me eye cancer sooner or later, and -- as much as I hate it -- subscribing to the AppKed RSS feed, not because I want to touch any of their downloads but because it's pretty much the only way I get to learn about new programs for macOS. This is sub-optimal to say the least. Except for AppKed, these meet neither a) nor b), and I really don't want to rely on something like fsckin AppKed for something that I suspect can be done from legitimate sources. I know about app stores and the like but they're not exactly useful for discovering new software even on mobile, where they're actually a thing. tl;dr does anyone know of a modern equivalent to either Freshmeat or 640 MB of Shareware?