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In 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? (self.foss)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by privsecfoss to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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(?)

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[–] sturgax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess for me it may be:

Plain ol' Static webpages with little to no JS vs Today's bloated webpages.

[–] privsecfoss 1 points 2 years ago

This. I couldn't agree more.

[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I still use Usenet BBS boards.

[–] not_amm@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've tried replacing closed-source feed reader apps, but it's hard when most of the focus is in self-hosted webapps, paid services or the UI is very uncomfortable. Also, mobile apps for this are counted and I just can't with their UIs.

[–] privsecfoss 1 points 2 years ago

I think both Read You and Nextcloud News are solid FOSS apps on android. Both from f-droid. On Linux newsboat.

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