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The automated suggestion finding alternative seems poorly done and stuffed with ads: - https://www.libhunt.com/posts/564420-lifetimes-clones-and-closures-expla
by nyanpasu64 5y ago
The automated suggestion finding alternative seems poorly done and stuffed with ads:
- https://www.libhunt.com/posts/564420-lifetimes-clones-and-closures-explaining-the-glib-clone-macro https://www.libhunt.com/posts/564420-lifetimes-clones-and-cl... (what's a post?)
- https://www.libhunt.com/r/owning-ref-rs https://www.libhunt.com/r/owning-ref-rs (Tokio is unrelated to owning-ref, fluent.js isn't even the same language, and Scout APM is a stealth ad, not an alternative, and "fortify" wasn't even mentioned).
- https://www.libhunt.com/libretro/RetroArch https://www.libhunt.com/libretro/RetroArch (351ELEC doesn't run on the same hardware as RetroArch, aliaspider/pcsx2 is an outdated fork of the actual PCSX2, and SonarQube is a stealth ad).
In fact for the first two URLs, I think I found libhunt.com in Google search results, and they were entirely useless. To me it's worthless SEO spam like Pinterest.
- abathur 5y agoI don't like to fling poo at anything people are putting their heart into, but... I've been wondering who to be annoyed at about this. libhunt (along with joyk, giters, pythonissues, libreddit, teddit, opensourceagenda, githubmemory, maybe some I'm forgetting?), is on the list of content-repackagey sites regularly eating up slots in the top 2 pages of search results for the exact name of my wee attention-starved project on ALL of google, ddg, and bing (it even eats 2 of the 5 paltry entries bing bothers to show on the first page of results!) And, of course, none of the comparisons are relevant. Constructively: it would be great if the developer would, at minimum, figure out where the roll-off point for not-popular-enough-to-get-decent-results is, and discourage search engines from indexing pages under the threshold.
- omnicognate 5y ago> I've been wondering who to be annoyed at about this. I suggest being annoyed at Google.
- abathur 5y agoI can chew two sticks of gum at once.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoMinor note: libreddit and teddit are supposedly privacy-protecting low-JS Reddit frontends, rather than commercial site scrapers. I'm not sure if they live up to their reputation though.
- abathur 5y agoThanks for the note. I settled on "content-repackagey" because it was the closest I could get to a ~neutral common-denominator of their behavior, and I don't really want to directly judge their intent/purpose.
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- ianthehenry 5y agoI use uBlacklist to remove sites like this from search results. It's pretty great. All the GitHub mirrors, the StackOverflow scrapers, any site that requires an account to view the thing I searched for... one click to never see these ad factories again.
- ReleaseCandidat 5y ago> (what's a post?) From the Libhunt site: It monitors everything that's posted on Reddit, HackerNews & Dev.to (almost in real-time). Then, if an open-source repository gets mentioned, we record that and use it to compile the lists of popular and similar projects. I have some problems believing that the author thought that this really helps actually finding alternatives.
- encryptluks2 5y agoI've always seen Libhunt as a spammy SEO site. I've seen it in search results before and everytime it was useless. Their comparisons were clearly unoriginal based on some unknown algorithm trying to scrape data.
- ReleaseCandidat 5y agoIt doesn't help that Saashub is from the same person.