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More than two decades ago, before git existed, there was something called Freshmeat (I think?) that published about new open source releases. Whatever happened

• EvanAnderson 3y ago
  Exactly what I was thinking of, too. It was freshmeat.net[0], got sold, renamed (to "Freecode"), then died. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freecode
• Diederich 3y ago
  Here's an example of what it looked like 21 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20030204090614/http://freshmeat.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20030204090614/http://freshmeat.... Back then, for years before and after, I looked at it almost every day. It was my go-to 'take a quick break from work while at work' site.
  • cmrdporcupine 3y ago
    Hah I just concurrently posted basically the same thing. Thanks for the nostalgia-link. Man I miss those years.
• cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  Freshmeat was a daily (or multiple times a day) visit for me. Or sub to the RSS feed. Back then it was Lambda the Ultimate and Freshmeat on daily rotation.
• squarefoot 3y ago
  Freshmeat was exceptionally good, with a much better UI than Sourceforge which was also strong back in the day. It was however closed source, so as soon as the assets were purchased by entities not interested in keeping it operational, it died as it happens with closed source products. The current owner is the same that owns SourceForge, which presumably don't want to compete with themselves by reviving it. http://freshcode.club/ http://freshcode.club/ is considered its successor.
  • jjirsa 3y ago
    Remarkable to me that ctrl-f, "Sourceforge" had 3 hits on this page. Would have expected a dozen.