I guess I’m becoming a dinosaur, and now I don’t know where to find out about new FOSS stuff being developed, when new releases are out, etc.
I used to get it all on USENET and mailing lists, and then later on sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net. Now I track some things on https://freshcode.club/, but I don’t see much that’s ‘fresh’. Maybe new updates, but not too many new packages. sourceforge still exists, but it doesn’t seem current.
If I know about a project I’ll follow it on GitHub, but I’m looking for a place to find out about new things that I didn’t know I wanted yet.
tl;dr: Where can I watch to see promising new FOSS software projects?
I don’t. When I have a need for software I got look it up.
I also try to get along with a small amount of software and I also mainly stick with default configurations. It is a great feeling when setting up a new PC or a device that there is little need to install a bunch of software and mess with a lot of configurations just to get my learned workflow up and running. Therefore there also isn’t really a need to follow new software releases.
Generally I read HackerNews and Lemmy communities like this one. Once in a while interesting projects will get highlighted.
But for the most part, once I identify a need, I’ll look through alternativeto.net and see what the popular open source options are.
Demo discs from magazines, where else?
Also I live in 1997 because it’s the only place I can afford a house
linking those communities properly:
!homelab@lemmy.ml and !homelab@lemmy.world
i think i did this right but im not 100% sure, so please let me know if i did anything wrong
Lots of good suggestions already commented. I browse subs and communities, browse fdroid regularly and have a scroll through sourceforge/ git*/ alternativeto/ linux distro repositories now and again
One time i was really bored and just sorted projects on gitlab and github by stars and scrolled page after page finding many interesting projects. Then finding one thing makes you think of another which you can go look in to
