[rescue] Has freshmeat.net disappeared forever? WAS:::Re: What to do with the SS20

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Mon Jun 23 01:29:56 CDT 2014


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 02:49:11PM -0500, Jerry Kemp wrote:

> That aside, no one has any love for freshmeat.net ?  I don't know when 
> freshmeat started up, but I have been using it as a software resource
> since probably 1997 or 1998. Sure, there's stuff out there like
> sourceforge, but their web interface is horrible.

Agreed. freshmeat used to be one of the first best places to look for neat
open source projects. And agreed, sourceforge has gone from bad to worse.
I'm really surprised that a giant resource like freshmeat could go away
without somebody or some group stepping in to save it.


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