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Hive mind: In the early 2000s, there was a website that tracked and reviewed open source applications. What was it?
You could look up, say, CMSes, get some basic info about each one (to make useful decision), and learn who its active committers were. The site closed, I know. Do you remember its name? Or people who were part of it?
I asked someone to write an article for me about "review sites for open source" -- think Yelp for Software -- and neither of us can remember its name. But if you have others that you think should be included (for positive or negative reasons), please let me know.
You might be thinking of freshmeat? Looks like it got renamed to freecode and stopped updating a few years ago.
Ah! It was ohloh and is now https://openhub.net
It was oholoh -- which went to Black Duck.
Did you all use them? I looked at it occasionally (I was credited with documentation work on plone) but always thought it was cool.
There were many… Slashdot, Sourceforge, Phoronix, Linux Journal. Those all still around. Do you have any other info about it?