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Freshmeat was really great. I was a consumer and producer of data. I remember well the announcement of the death of Freshmeat. This is partly why I did Fresher
by cedricbonhomme 5y ago
Freshmeat was really great. I was a consumer and producer of data. I remember well the announcement of the death of Freshmeat.
This is partly why I did Freshermeat [1]. I am operating an instance dedicated to security projects [2] where you can submit projects.
[1] https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/freshermeat https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/freshermeat
[2] https://open-source-security-software.net https://open-source-security-software.net
- readingnews 5y agoLike yourself I was both a consumer and producer on Freshmeat. I recall when it closed, I think RMS or ESR (kinda fuzzy now) asked for people to help build a replacement. Personally, it is a real loss, not in a nostalgia sort of way, but in a discovery way. Search engines, searching github, heck just github, are no substitute for the cool software we found on Freshmeat. It was a way for projects to not only become visible, but for you to stumble upon them (as other comments have already noted). With some frequency, I wonder why no one has come up with a replacement. Sourceforge has had its ups and downs, but the front page of SourceForge compared to FreshMeat.net is like comparing a modern news conglomerate to Hacker News.
- ms4720 5y agoI used to do the same thing using FreeBSD's ports collection back then. I amazed my coworkers with my skills at finding things.
- rkeene2 5y agoThe instance I use is called freshcode [0] [0] https://freshcode.club/ https://freshcode.club/