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Re:Awesome repositories are no longer awesome by p-e-w on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:48AM (#50378035)
They’re a kind of modern version of web directories, and they failed for the same reason the original web directories did (spam/self-promotion, and outdated stuff).
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Re:Awesome repositories are no longer awesome by embedding-shape on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:03AM (#50378146)
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Re:Awesome repositories are no longer awesome by matsemann on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:50AM (#50378493)
They were originally by an influencer developer (Sindre Sorhus), so they were junk from the start.
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Re:Awesome repositories are no longer awesome by hypfer on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:19AM (#50379376)
FWIW, I appreciate their contributions to the ecosystem, in the sense that you can just take whatever they're doing, multiply by -1 in each dimension, and there you have your steering vector towards good ideas.

That is genuinely useful and provides a lot of value.

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Re:Awesome repositories are no longer awesome by embedding-shape on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:47PM (#50382034)
Sure, but that developer set out to curate a list, not do what seemingly everyone did afterwards, which was just to build the "longest list possible" with zero regards to quality of linked projects.
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