<story><title>What&apos;s in a name? Freshmeat is now Freecode</title><url>http://freecode.com/articles/whats-in-a-name</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanswork</author><text>I haven&apos;t thought of Freshmeat in probably 8 years.  Amazing to see that they are still around.  Does anyone here actually actively use them anymore?  If so how?  Back in the day I would use it to watch for new releases of different types of software to try out and experiment with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pixelmonkey</author><text>I think freshmeat/freecode used to serve a niche that has now been filled by the open source community and the web itself. When announcements for new code releases used to happen on mailing lists and download links used to be tarballs, it was relevant to have a feed to notify you of new releases.&lt;p&gt;Now, new code releases happen at places like github, google code, and bitbucket, and the releases are almost immediately pushed upstream to package maintainers / repositories, blogs, twitter accounts, etc. Therefore, rather than a rebrand, I think what they really need to do is accept that their time is no longer here and go for a deadpool. Hard pill to swallow, perhaps, but probably the best medicine.</text></comment>
<story><title>What&apos;s in a name? Freshmeat is now Freecode</title><url>http://freecode.com/articles/whats-in-a-name</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanswork</author><text>I haven&apos;t thought of Freshmeat in probably 8 years.  Amazing to see that they are still around.  Does anyone here actually actively use them anymore?  If so how?  Back in the day I would use it to watch for new releases of different types of software to try out and experiment with.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SageRaven</author><text>I visit once a week to view the projects that have been updated over the week.  Keeps me aware of new projects and up to date on the status of stuff that I use every day but might not otherwise know how its progressing.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I&apos;m kinda bummed about the the change of name.</text></comment>