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For example of what this site offers, I found the following web page when looking for a .RTF (Rich Text Format) text editor (in my case, specifically for Linux,

For example of what this site offers, I found the following web page when looking for a .RTF (Rich Text Format) text editor (in my case, specifically for Linux, and ideally open source): https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RichTextEditorFamily https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RichTextEditorFamily (Now that I think about it -- in the future, wouldn't it would be great to have a website/database that would contain all software, not just text editors, but the data would be so granular so as to allow searches on such attributes as open source (or not!), LOC, platform, language, program type, subtype, etc., etc. AlternativeTo has some of this, GitHub has some of this, Wikipedia lists have some of this, and of course, this website has some of this -- but for Text Editors only... anyway, just thinking aloud! <g> :-) <g>)

teddyh 3y ago
See also the Debian package tags.
theendisney2 3y ago
Imagine something like dht to pump database rows around. If you have an application you put the row at the top before passing it to the next node. You type a search query then wait for the river of spam to float by.
wild_egg 3y ago
Great to hear someone other than myself is interested in an all software site. I started working on a site for that in December after getting fed up with the number of times I've looked for a program to do X, not finding it, starting to build it myself, only to stumble across a random HN comment two months later that links to a program that solves the problem better than I ever could. I'd really like a resource that lets me find this stuff better, so I'm making it. Of course, if the usual pattern repeats again — sometime in March I'll come across such a site that has already done this and been running for 5 years and we never knew
- stonogo 3y ago
  This used to be freshmeat.net, which rebranded to freecode.org and immediately died. It was an heirarchical directory of software, classified by category, user interface, UI toolkit, license, implementation language, operating system support... I often wonder what happened to that database. It would be a great thing to revive. "I want an ncurses text editor that runs on linux and has a permissive license" or "I want a QT-based email client that runs on Windows and is GPL" or "What Mac OS X software is using GTK these days", all extremely quick and easy to look up. edit: http://freshcode.club/ http://freshcode.club/ is basically the freecode version of the site, revived. Unfortunately, one of the changes late in freshmeat's existence was a removal of the formal categorization heirarchy and a transition to arbitrary 'tagging', which led to almost-identical tags, confusingly conflicting tags, and generally made life slightly harder.
  - wild_egg 3y ago
    Thank you for this! I think the information architecture is going to easily be the hardest part of this project. This really gives me some food for thought ... Or I guess I could throw some LLM RAG nonsense on it and see what happens
    - stonogo 3y ago
      The original site (as with sourceforge) was based on "Trove", which I can barely find mention of these days: https://tuxedo.org/esr/trove/ https://tuxedo.org/esr/trove/ the post talking about how it was updated for python 1.5 should be taken as an indication that a new start might be needed!

teddyh 3y ago

See also the Debian package tags.

theendisney2 3y ago

Imagine something like dht to pump database rows around. If you have an application you put the row at the top before passing it to the next node. You type a search query then wait for the river of spam to float by.

wild_egg 3y ago

Great to hear someone other than myself is interested in an all software site. I started working on a site for that in December after getting fed up with the number of times I've looked for a program to do X, not finding it, starting to build it myself, only to stumble across a random HN comment two months later that links to a program that solves the problem better than I ever could. I'd really like a resource that lets me find this stuff better, so I'm making it. Of course, if the usual pattern repeats again — sometime in March I'll come across such a site that has already done this and been running for 5 years and we never knew

stonogo 3y ago
This used to be freshmeat.net, which rebranded to freecode.org and immediately died. It was an heirarchical directory of software, classified by category, user interface, UI toolkit, license, implementation language, operating system support... I often wonder what happened to that database. It would be a great thing to revive. "I want an ncurses text editor that runs on linux and has a permissive license" or "I want a QT-based email client that runs on Windows and is GPL" or "What Mac OS X software is using GTK these days", all extremely quick and easy to look up. edit: http://freshcode.club/ http://freshcode.club/ is basically the freecode version of the site, revived. Unfortunately, one of the changes late in freshmeat's existence was a removal of the formal categorization heirarchy and a transition to arbitrary 'tagging', which led to almost-identical tags, confusingly conflicting tags, and generally made life slightly harder.
- wild_egg 3y ago
  Thank you for this! I think the information architecture is going to easily be the hardest part of this project. This really gives me some food for thought ... Or I guess I could throw some LLM RAG nonsense on it and see what happens
  - stonogo 3y ago
    The original site (as with sourceforge) was based on "Trove", which I can barely find mention of these days: https://tuxedo.org/esr/trove/ https://tuxedo.org/esr/trove/ the post talking about how it was updated for python 1.5 should be taken as an indication that a new start might be needed!