Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools?

Posted by CrankyBear on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:33AM
from the functionize.com dept.

https://www.functionize.com/blog/wheres-the-yelp-for-open-source-tools/

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Re:Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools? by ColanR on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:47AM (#24471535)

I would have thought github itself filled this niche. Stars, forks, activity and the number and status of issues are all direct metrics of the facets of what users care about.

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Re:Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools? by verdverm on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:22PM (#24472655)

Awesome lists are pretty good, though they often have an amount of stale content

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Re:Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools? by download13 on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:39AM (#24471433)

I would have said stackshare if the operators hadn't gone to great lengths to make it completely unusable

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Re:Where’s the Yelp for open-source tools? by CrankyBear on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:44AM (#24471503)

There've been a lot of flops, and that's one of them.

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