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Poll: Do you still use Freshmeat (aka Freecode)?

8 points by mindcrime ↗ HN
In days of yore, freshmeat.net was considered a central and highly important (and influential) website in the F/OSS world. Projects announced new releases there regularly and it was a great place to keep track of "what's new"? The question is, do you use Freshmeat (now renamed Freecode), either to announce releases of your own projects, or to find out about new projects?

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webnrrd2k
Let me fire up my slashdot account and check. Ahhh... nope.
mindcrime
Funny thing about that... I don't remember exactly why, but a couple of days ago I found myself browsing over to Slashdot, and I found that there were actually some interesting discussions going on there, a few of which did not seem to have corresponding discussions here at HN. The list of articles also seemed more current and up-to-date than I expected, as part of the reason I drifted away from Slashdot was the fact that Digg, Reddit, HN, etc., had started to feature much fresher content.

Now I've started keeping /. open in a tab again and checking in every so often. I'd like to think it's more than just nostalgia and that they still have something to offer...

webnrrd2k
I find them worth checking out every once in a while, too.

I'm not so into their technical articles any more, but there are a few articles I like, and they usually have some good comments.

jzcoder
I always forget the new name. Luckily, the old URL http://freshmeat.net still works. I browse it maybe once every few months. Mostly for nostalgia sake.

I also noticed http://www.osnews.com/ has picked up more recently. I used to browse that a lot too, but it was stagnate for awhile. Glad it's trying to make a come back.