No more updates for Freecode [LWN.net]

No more updates for Freecode

Posted Jun 24, 2014 22:20 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: No more updates for Freecode by SEJeff
Parent article: No more updates for Freecode

How exactly?

By making it easy to find software, or did they do something else?

Personally, I find stuff is either included in the distro or on Github.

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No more updates for Freecode

Posted Jun 25, 2014 16:02 UTC (Wed) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link]

Well how many people go to "link directory" websites like freshmeat anymore? Why should you browse a big directory of software looking for something to help make more pictures of lolcats when you can just google and get the results a lot quicker.

I wasn't saying google killed freshmeat in specific, only that they basically made much of the original point of link aggregation sites such as freshmeat completely redundant and kind of quaint. It makes me feel like I'm back in the days of Altavista before search engines were super advanced. Does that make more sense?