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Here's an old archive.org snapshot for anyone who (like me) had trouble recalling what freshmeat was all about: https://web.archive.org/web/20050301154742/http:
by Gracana 12y ago
Here's an old archive.org snapshot for anyone who (like me) had trouble recalling what freshmeat was all about: https://web.archive.org/web/20050301154742/http://freshmeat.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050301154742/http://freshmeat....
- blablabla123 12y agoActually the coolest thing was the catalogue. When you clicked on browse, all apps and libs were sorted by category. And you could search the categories and even have search parameters like code maturity. (From Alpha to Mature IIRC)
- jstsch 12y agoFunny how great that looks, even now. Of course, style-wise it's a bit dated (style in the sense of web-fashion). But at the same time, the content is very easy to scan and descriptions are short, to the point and quite consistent. I mean, compare this to... https://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/ https://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/
- mattl 12y agoLooks an awful lot like reddit.
- rachelbythebay 12y agoIt wasn't always freshmeat.net, though... https://web.archive.org/web/19980419152907/http://freshmeat.unreal.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/19980419152907/http://freshmeat....
- buster 12y agoI remember that i had freshmeat on my bookmark bar and browsed it every day once for new stuff. The old design really was MUCH better.