privsecfoss@feddit.dk to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · edit-22 years agoIn your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?message-squaremessage-square229fedilinkarrow-up1104arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1104arrow-down1message-squareIn your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?privsecfoss@feddit.dk to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org · edit-22 years agomessage-square229fedilinkfile-text
I’ll start: RSS and blogs, news vs. social media XMPP vs. WhatsApp/FB messenger/Snapchat IRC vs. Matrix, Teams, Discord etc. Forums vs. Social media, Reddit, Lemmy(?)
minus-squareflatbield@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 years agoUsenet use to be great. Predated forums and Reddit. Frankly the threadiverse is just now going a bit back to that concept.
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years agoI miss the days when usenet was a standard part of most ISPs included offerings. Hopefully the fediverse can get wnought traction to grow some vibrant communities like we used to enjoy in heyday of the old newsgroups.
minus-squareflatbield@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoCompuServe was pretty good too but very expensive. So not somethimg I care to go back to.
Usenet use to be great. Predated forums and Reddit. Frankly the threadiverse is just now going a bit back to that concept.
I miss the days when usenet was a standard part of most ISPs included offerings.
Hopefully the fediverse can get wnought traction to grow some vibrant communities like we used to enjoy in heyday of the old newsgroups.
CompuServe was pretty good too but very expensive. So not somethimg I care to go back to.