freshmeat.NET
The most obvious change is, of course, our new look. This is the year of the Xbox, which we at freshmeat consider the most important development in the history of console gaming. Since this is the first time a real software company has come out with a product to compete with those poseurs at Nintendo and Sony, we wanted to celebrate the event by adopting their dynamic, vibrant color scheme. We hope you're as excited about it as we are.
More fundamental changes are making their way into freshmeat's code. We've read a number of articles about Web programming this year (especially on this really cool site we found), and were surprised to find out that what we've been doing is outdated. We were using PHP, not realizing that everyone's giving up on that and moving to C#. To be honest, we really didn't know much about it. When we typed "C#" into Google, however, the first site that showed up in the search results was called "msdn". It was very reassuring to find positive information on a site with a name so similar to our parent company's name, and we took it as a good omen. According to what we read, C#:
- Embraces Emerging Web Programming Standards
- Eliminates Costly Programming Errors
- Reduces Ongoing Development Costs with Built-in Support for Versioning
It also provides:
- Better Mapping Between Business Process and Implementation
- Extensive Interoperability
We're not entirely certain what all that means yet, but it sounds really good, and we think you're going to appreciate the changes that will come from having the site running on up-to-date software. A representative from the company that wrote C# has been working with us on the migration, and he says freshmeat will be a lot more "robust", "reliable", and "synergistic" after the change. Sounds great.
Some of the changes will effect you directly. For example, we've been using our own home-brewed system for managing logins. After the migration, we'll be adopting a Web standard called "Passport". As this standard is adopted by sites all over the Web, you'll be able use the same system to log in at freshmeat and everywhere else!
Even better, the Passport RFC includes support for financial transactions, so it will take care of the implementation of the ideas we're adopting from two of our sister sites.
Like SlashDot, we're going to implement a subscription system that we know you'll enjoy. We haven't decided exactly what kinds of subscriptions you'll be able to purchase yet, and we'd love to have your suggestions about what you'd like to pay for. The filtering system will definitely become a fee-based system; you'll be given the chance to pay for each project that doesn't show up on the front page. We're pretty sure that authors will be paying for each announcement they submit and readers will pay to post comments. Many of the details (like how much you'll pay for each hit that's directed to your site) are still being worked out.
We're going to be adopting quite a lot of things from themes.org, one of which is the ability to purchase freshmeat theme packs which will change the look of the site. Whenever you get tired of looking at one set of colors, you'll be able to purchase a different set. If you decide to go back to the one you had before, you just have to purchase it again. This means that if you really don't like the Xbox theme (and we know there are a few people who are picky about these sorts of things), you'll be able to buy a subscription to the boring old blue and white one.
It's going to take us some time to roll out all of these and many more changes we have in the pipeline, but we're so excited about it all that we had to share the good news with you right away. We look forward to all your ideas and suggestions; please post your comments below.
A final word: Any time of transition is bound to be a little stressful, so we'll appreciate your patience. There will be a few rough spots in the road as we replace our legacy systems, but we hope you'll just sit tight with us. We think you'll be flying high when, suddenly, everything clicks.
this is great! finally, freshmeat might compete with Download.com!
Finally, i can skip between Hotmail and Freshmeat.net with Passport! (BTW, the AWESOMELY RADICAL X-Box CSS theme RULEZ!)
.NET
As long as there is a plaid theme, (my favorite color), I'll gladly pay. ;)
Chuck
I hope you're fucking joking...
I stopped reading right after you got to the part where you said you will be using Passport for login authentication. Why don't you take a nice little read-up on exactly what Passport is and does. Honestly I think that it's useless and a complete GAPING SECURITY HOLE as it is currently. I'll read the rest of this horridly mind numbing article after I post this, hoping that you are actually joking, or just finished smoking a lot of crack over the weekend and are just hitting into withdrawl.
New Freshmeat?
Geez guys you could have chosen a better color scheme.
Is there any way to reset it for indiviual users?
All I have to say is I liked the old colors much better.... these new ones are about enough to make me toss my cpus. (puke in laymans terms)
-Doc
Ok, done reading and now I'm ready to hurt you.
I know I will be speaking for about 80% of the people who use freshmeat when I say you've completely lost base with all of your users.
I am a miniscule little programmer who writes small little utilities once in a while and I know I honestly don't have that big a fan-base. Even being this small, I rely on freshmeat.net to round up about 95% of the hits to my projects and website when I release new versions, as well as people just searching for stuff each day.
With you trying to charge us out the rear for stuff now, nobody's going to bother using this site any more! I mean come on, you're a site that was created to promote free software, as well as sharing and promotion of free/open source technology. Now you want to start charging us JUST TO CHANGE THE LOOK OF THE SITE? MY GOD! With all the NEW WEB TECHNOLOGY out there, you have yet to embrace the ease of CSS to let us possibly change the look ourselves! God forbid I announce this idea to the world, now nobody will pay for your "Theme packs"!
Oh, and don't forget, once you change themes, if you want to go back, you have TO BUY THAT THEME AGAIN, EVEN IF YOU PAID FOR IT ONCE BEFORE!
I'd be willing to say, donate some cash for being allowed to post a project to freshmeat, but the rest of this crap sounds, well, like crap!
I love the part where you say that C# is the wave of the future and PHP is old and outdated - oh and the XBOX is going to be the next President of the United States!
How much $ did Microsoft give you? I'd love to know.
There is no hope for the human race.
This article cracked me up. The people posting to it are even MORE amusing. There is no hope for the human race, PERIOD.
:(
I think I'm going to cry. :(
BBBWWWaaaaahhhhhh
Thanks guys! I laughed so hard I nearly wet myself. What a way to start the week!!
Re: Ok, done reading and now I'm ready to hurt you.
No, you misunderstand. The themes do use CSS.
Re: Ok, done reading and now I'm ready to hurt you.
No i won't hurt you. But you forgot to try writing your site in Visual Basic.NET. "C#" is even to fast to reflect the slow connections of the internet. The huge .NET-Framework is too small for your server-memory. Add the Visual Basic.NET Runtime an save time while waiting %-)
cu, stoph. :-))))
Re: Ok, done reading and now I'm ready to hurt you.
> I know I will be speaking for about 80%
> of the people who use freshmeat when I
> say you've completely lost base with all
> of your users.
>
> I am a miniscule little programmer who
> writes small little utilities once in a
> while and I know I honestly don't have
> that big a fan-base. Even being this
> small, I rely on freshmeat.net to round
> up about 95% of the hits to my projects
> and website when I release new versions,
> as well as people just searching for
> stuff each day.
>
> With you trying to charge us out the
> rear for stuff now, nobody's going to
> bother using this site any more! I mean
> come on, you're a site that was created
> to promote free software, as well as
> sharing and promotion of free/open
> source technology. Now you want to
> start charging us JUST TO CHANGE THE
> LOOK OF THE SITE? MY GOD! With all the
> NEW WEB TECHNOLOGY out there, you have
> yet to embrace the ease of CSS to let us
> possibly change the look ourselves! God
> forbid I announce this idea to the
> world, now nobody will pay for your
> "Theme packs"!
>
> Oh, and don't forget, once you change
> themes, if you want to go back, you have
> TO BUY THAT THEME AGAIN, EVEN IF YOU
> PAID FOR IT ONCE BEFORE!
>
> I'd be willing to say, donate some
> cash for being allowed to post a project
> to freshmeat, but the rest of this crap
> sounds, well, like crap!
>
> I love the part where you say that C#
> is the wave of the future and PHP is old
> and outdated - oh and the XBOX is going
> to be the next President of the United
> States!
>
> How much $ did Microsoft give you?
> I'd love to know.
Wow.... I suggest you look at the date... It's the first day in April. :)
diggity-DOH!!
OH PLEEEASE... pleeease pleeeease tell me this is just a bad joke..
Re: Ok, done reading and now I'm ready to hurt you.
I know I'm speaking for 100% of the people who know what the date is today when I say "haha boy do you look stupid."
> I know I will be speaking for about 80%
> of the people who use freshmeat when I
> say you've completely lost base with all
> of your users.
>
> I am a miniscule little programmer who
> writes small little utilities once in a
> while and I know I honestly don't have
> that big a fan-base. Even being this
> small, I rely on freshmeat.net to round
> up about 95% of the hits to my projects
> and website when I release new versions,
> as well as people just searching for
> stuff each day.
>
> With you trying to charge us out the
> rear for stuff now, nobody's going to
> bother using this site any more! I mean
> come on, you're a site that was created
> to promote free software, as well as
> sharing and promotion of free/open
> source technology. Now you want to
> start charging us JUST TO CHANGE THE
> LOOK OF THE SITE? MY GOD! With all the
> NEW WEB TECHNOLOGY out there, you have
> yet to embrace the ease of CSS to let us
> possibly change the look ourselves! God
> forbid I announce this idea to the
> world, now nobody will pay for your
> "Theme packs"!
>
> Oh, and don't forget, once you change
> themes, if you want to go back, you have
> TO BUY THAT THEME AGAIN, EVEN IF YOU
> PAID FOR IT ONCE BEFORE!
>
> I'd be willing to say, donate some
> cash for being allowed to post a project
> to freshmeat, but the rest of this crap
> sounds, well, like crap!
>
> I love the part where you say that C#
> is the wave of the future and PHP is old
> and outdated - oh and the XBOX is going
> to be the next President of the United
> States!
>
> How much $ did Microsoft give you?
> I'd love to know.
Ah, I get it :P
Right, well, April Fools day doesn't kick in until I wake up on Monday. Screw this 12am thing. It's still March in my mind. I hate you all.
Great april fools joke!
Had me going for a minute but once you said xbox... and especially C# and passport really showed it was an joke...
comon guys, its just an joke. Admitably, its an bit early for april 1st but there are those time zones....
Some people's comments are acting like they are destroyed and it feels like the real thing.. I wonder what other sites will do..
Chill, its just for fun. I would at least wait an few days before I would be worried about anything released on april 1st!
hahaahahaha
i just love this month
heh
i like the colors ;p
This is just what I needed.
Thanks FM for the laugh. I've been studying for a job interview for about four days now and this was just the break I was needing at this point. I think what makes this even better is the fact that April 1st comes every year and without fail some poor sap falls for some joke. Keep up the good work guys.
freshmeat.NET.net
Congratulations, guys! Onward and upward, say I. I can't wait to have all my e-commerce info in one reliable place -- Passport -- where I need it. Good on you! Chocks away!
You ought to consider adpoting Micro Soft's .NET framework, as it dovetails beatifully with your new vision, as far as I can tell. I think you should also change our URL to freshmeat.NET.net. It has a nice ring to it.
Luv the new skin, too. All the best,
>-RL->
A marvellous announcement
I'm glad to see that one of the most useful parts of the
Open Source Developers Network chose such an
auspicious date to announce it's intention to get in
behind some of the most powerful, wonderful and
technically superior technologies ever to grace the
Universe.
It is a proud moment for all programmers everywhere
that you have chosen to embrace the the triple crown
of C#, .NET and themes.org all at once.
Oh, and the colour scheme, tears of joy roll down my
face at the absolute certainy with which you
overturned the tenets of readability and usability to
grab this opportunity to be led by fashion, dare I say it,
indeed fad. Your courage overwhelms me.
My one small tear of regret is that you didn't recognise
the similarity between msdn and osdn as an
opportunity and realize your true destiny. Surely a
merger with msdn is the one true path to
enlightment.
Once again my congratulations on such a marvellous
celebration of this auspicious date. I hope my few
words of encouragement are a small return.
Re: A marvellous announcement
I may die laughing =)
> I'm glad to see that one of the most
> useful parts of the
> Open Source Developers Network chose
> such an
> auspicious date to announce it's
> intention to get in
> behind some of the most powerful,
> wonderful and
> technically superior technologies ever
> to grace the
> Universe.
>
> It is a proud moment for all
> programmers everywhere
> that you have chosen to embrace the
> the triple crown
> of C#, .NET and themes.org all at
> once.
>
> Oh, and the colour scheme, tears of
> joy roll down my
> face at the absolute certainy with
> which you
> overturned the tenets of readability
> and usability to
> grab this opportunity to be led by
> fashion, dare I say it,
> indeed fad. Your courage overwhelms
> me.
>
> My one small tear of regret is that
> you didn't recognise
> the similarity between msdn and osdn
> as an
> opportunity and realize your true
> destiny. Surely a
> merger with msdn is the one true path
> to
> enlightment.
>
> Once again my congratulations on such
> a marvellous
> celebration of this auspicious date. I
> hope my few
> words of encouragement are a small
> return.
Very funny
This is certainly more clever than what passes for april fools' on slashdot most years.
I admit, my first impulse was to load up my prefs page and find a way to switch to colors back.
Then I took a look at my handy dandy E-Time epplet and realized what day it was. Nice.
P.S.: If the colors don't change back by april second, I will personally fund development of a freshmeat replacement out of my pizza money. I may not be kidding.
About time...
No not about time freshmeat went the way of microsoft. But about time some more april fools jokes showed up. Being in New Zealand its dinner time before most of them show up.
Re: New Freshmeat?
> Is there any way to reset it for
> indiviual users?
>
> All I have to say is I liked the old
> colors much better....
I agree, the first thing I've searched into my "preferences" was the option for changing fm "skin" ... it's so hard allowing a such thing? I believe that using a separate CSS for each skin and marking the html code with some CLASS and ID will be the right solution.
MSDN vs. OSDN
Ah, oh how relieved I am to hear finally the move to industry-standard technologies, such as C#, and Passport.
Finally the open source world can realize that it can't just go off on tangents and develop novel technologies and protocols, publish them openly and expect everyone to collaborate.
Finally, we can follow standards developed by learned, wise and forward-thinking organizations who have the finances to spend millions or even billions getting things just perfect -- just right for them to continue leading us in specific directions.
Finally, we can cast off our open-source shackes, and stop worrying about how to make systems interoperate. We can stop worrying about which desktop is right, which API is best, which browser to use. Finally, we can rely on someone else to decide that for us.
And... the X-Box theme was the cherry on top. How better to represent our new direction to intellectual freedom -- or better freedom from intellect -- than by emulating one of the most proprietary and gratutiously marketed consoles of our day?
Cheers to Freshmeat.NET. I look forward to helping support you financially with new user fees, subscription services and theme surcharges. I think any red-blooded patriot should do the same.
very amusing
When I finally got off the floor from fainting, I was able to finish reading the article and had a good laugh.
I can't believe I fell for it.
Great joke
but can we keep the look? It's great!
The new X-Box look
I was SHOCKED to see the new X-Box look. I've been a freshmeat.net user for a while now, and somehow I assumed that you are a Linux software repository among other important things. I'm not sure if you know this, but SONY PS2 uses Linux as its operating system. Actually I'm sure you know it. Something or someone must have changed in your management? I can't begin to speculate. Regardless of who, why and how people write games, it is the end product that is important. SONY PS2 outperforms X-Box in many ways, I not only play games on it, I watch DVDs (option included in the $299 price tag) unlike X-Box. Microsoft makes good products, sure, if you want to pay for 'bugfull' software and no support unless you pay. I did consider buying X-Box because I believe that everything and everyone should be given the same consideration. I opted SONY PS2 (vs X-Box) and Linux (vs Windows NT/2000/XP).
Thanks for giving me and others the opportunity to share our opinion.
Re: this is great! finally, freshmeat might compete with Download.com!
Funny funny stuff.
Had to register just to comment.
I DID fall for it, but ....
I live in California, it is now 10:30PM, March 31st. I think you should have waited a few more hours. But I must admit, I fell for it...
I like it
I hope you gonna change this outdated linux system with a brand news window 2000.NET server which is GREAT. Good jobs guys. But the color is a little haxor like. I prefer red,green,blue and yellow just like the Windows logo .
Thanks Good job !
Re: I DID fall for it, but ....
> I live in California, it is now 10:30PM,
> March 31st. I think you should have
> waited a few more hours. But I must
> admit, I fell for it...
And it's 7:30pm in New Zealand, blame the timezones :) We decided to launch this for midnight on the freshmeat servers.
What Happened?
I was the first to figure this was a joke and post accordingly, I think. Did I spill the beans too quickly? My post got washed out.
OMG
There are just SOME things not to joke about. I almost passed out wait i DID pass out!
Funny but sad
First the color was suspicious but then some keywords (msdn, passport) gave it all away. Sadly, I'm amazed how many people took ya'll seriously! The human race is surely doomed! C'mon people wake the hell up.
Re: What Happened?
> I was the first to figure this was a
> joke and post accordingly, I think. Did
> I spill the beans too quickly? My post
> got washed out.
Yes, you did. :) I even sent you an email telling you I removed your comment.
Sounds like a case of ...
The whole subscription stuff etc. sounds like you're adapting the philosophy of a certain site with all the "cows" on it, you know that site that has up-to date Linux software downloads with mirrors all over the world? PS: if you're a heavy online casino gambler or in need of registering your next domain you might feel at home there while browing the "latest" Linux downloads...
Re: OMG
> There are just SOME things not to joke
> about. I almost passed out wait i DID
> pass out!
>
If this isn't a joke, freshmeat needs to rm -rf its web directory, microsoft has NO place in the Linux community.
Re: Sounds like a case of ...
> The whole subscription stuff etc. sounds
> like you're adapting the philosophy of a
> certain site with all the
> "cows" on it, you know that
> site that has up-to date Linux software
> downloads with mirrors all over the
> world? PS: if you're a heavy online
> casino gambler or in need of registering
> your next domain you might feel at home
> there while browing the
> "latest" Linux downloads...
poop
One of the lamest April 1st stories I've ever read.
Duh.
Re: One of the lamest April 1st stories I've ever read.
! thats right, i feel dumb, its only 11 here, not APRIL 1ST, ok, im going to bed, TY carlos for the 'awakening'
* bionix crawls into his bed
Re: OMG
> There are just SOME things not to joke
> about. I almost passed out wait i DID
> pass out!
>
near heart attack here....
don't sell out
OH my Lord, I think I have been damned. Maybe it was because I didn't go to church today. Don't sell out to Microsoft, C# is crap...PHP is not old news, it is just beginning to be what it deserves to be. And no subscription service, I will leave my favorite site forever in that case. Man, just when things were looking up too. Oh, and these colors SUCK, at least let me choose a theme if you are going to have shitty colors like this! Please, someone agree with me!!
Re: don't sell out
Man, I got played, just after posting I looked at the date. You got me, you got me. Well, at least you know we all love you! hehehe
MOMMY, PLEASE, MAKE THESE BAD PEOPLE STOP!
They are scaring all of the little children and giving me a headache trying to actually read the annoucements ;)
Seriously, the color scheme is making my eyes water.
Just a friendly reminder, for those of you living in a democratic republic
That the nitwits who take this seriously... are the people responsible for electing your country's leaders. ;)
Oh, there is no hope for the human race. Six billion years in the making, and still stubborn as a donkey, dumb as a brick.
Re: don't sell out
> Man, I got played, just after posting I
> looked at the date. You got me, you got
> me. Well, at least you know we all love
> you! hehehe
man, it took you that long :). the first part was rather believable, but when paying for comments and filtering and all that crap was mentioned....
good one, btw...
Re: Great joke
> but can we keep the look? It's great!
Unfortunately I read that now with lynx (without colors) so seems that I have lost all fun :-(
color scheme
My first response was:
"Oh, they changed the colors for April 1st. Cool."
Then I realised there was a post.
Hey, it seems a lot of people like the colors (I'm a fan of high contrast, and I like green) and a lot of people don't (they probably use typical grey colored windows too [grin]).
Anyways, how about an April 2nd "gift" of user definable colors in our user prefs?
Wee.
Re: One of the lamest April 1st stories I've ever read.
Not lame compared to what slashdot thinks might be funny. If I thought sex was entertaining, I wouldn't be talking to a computer, let alone looking at freshmeat or slashdot.
If you don't have a passport, and if you don't have any money, and you just hang around
reading web pages and emails, and uploading and downloading free software, and if it's a complete joke to propose that you pay anything for the privileges, not only won't the revenue models support you any more, existing laws will be enforced to prevent you from continuing to be a drag on the economy. eVagrancy costs America millions of dollars of lost productivity daily, and the arrests will continue. Move along; this ain't Disneyland.
Very good Joke
When I displayed freshmeat.net page, I thought my browser was going mad and that it did some color inversions...
white going black, light gray going dark, and blue going green... ;)
Then I remembered the date, and ran for an article... ;)
hum... I love it!
nice one
the first thought that came in my mind was .... what thaa...(damn colors.. i feel like i'm on astalavista.box.sk:)
Re: Great april fools joke!
> Had me going for a minute but once you
> said xbox... and especially C# and
> passport really showed it was an
> joke...
>
> comon guys, its just an joke.
> Admitably, its an bit early for april
> 1st but there are those time zones....
>
> Some people's comments are acting like
> they are destroyed and it feels like the
> real thing.. I wonder what other sites
> will do..
>
> Chill, its just for fun. I would at
> least wait an few days before I would be
> worried about anything released on april
> 1st!
http://www.sunhelp.org has one, though not nearly as good. I think sell out is going to be a common theme this April Fool's Day, after the DoJ's sell out being such big news.
freshmeat's gone rancid
so we'll see a retraction tomorrow???
Heh
Yeah, it was very difficult to take this seriously noting the date at the top. Not quite as funny as what's on ThinkGeek (http://www.thinkgeek.com), but at least you guys tried. Happy April.
What a horrible look!
This look is annoying and horrible. I hate it
Este look es molesto y horrible. Lo odio.
LOL
Cool stuff for fool's day! :) You made my day :)
ROTFL :-))))
Thanks guys. I've almost dropped down from the chair in the morning. It's far better joke than our yesterday's elections (in Ukraine)....
Well, after .COM meltdown it's quite natural to expect .NET one :o)
:)
Maybe Pink insteed of green would look more eleet ? ;)
Re: What a horrible look!
After I've posted, I've read other posts
What's the matter with the date?
I don't understand very well. Is a day to make jokes?
Well, I'm Spanish, and in Spain the day to make jokes is 28 December.
What a shock! :)
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Reading and Printing
Guys,
Congrats on the new and really cool looking upgrade to the UI .... Really appreciate the change.
Coming to the point... please note that
1. Printing white text on black background is painfull on lasers as the text is all printed very dull. plus ur florocent colors add to the already painful printing episode
2. Reading white on black is also against the checklist for a good website. it makes reading difficult and for ppl with not so great eyesite its is stressful to read white on black. Please remember that we read this on monitors that emit light so white color stands out and hurts the eye.
:D :D :D
my heart set out some beats while reading your article, very good fake!!!
well done joke for april 1st
Great!
and luckily the theme can be changed... just one thing - the images still are green on black. Can that be changed too?
Re: Great!
oops... at the moment the page reloded I saw them change...
Re: Great joke
> % but can we keep the look? It's
> great!
> Unfortunately I read that now with
> lynx (without colors) so seems that I
> have lost all fun :-(
( Now I got machine where to run mozilla. )
Well, after all these colors seems mostly readable (at least on this monitor.)
Oh my god
I thought I was going to die. I didn't even realize that it was April 1st. I was sitting here with my morning cup of coffe and thinking "Did these guy just all of the sudden go off the deep end?"
But as I read the comments I realize that it is April 1st and Happy April Fool's Day.
good joke
you know, it was a good idea and all, but gamefaqs.com did almost the exact same thing. i knew this one was a fake as soon as i saw it, because of your remark about the xbox and all the microsoft stuff.
Hahaha It's not a joke :)
Let's lick Microsoft's @ss :-)
It's not a 1 april joke,cause many people have already decided to do so... what are you waiting for? Christmas?
Down with linux,apache,php,etc...NT,IIS and asp r0x :)
Resistance is futile....surrender to the Microsoft Corporation now and save 20% for XP professional.
Your network have never been so stable and secure....
Be smart,don't be a weak heart!!!
great joke
Who can explain that "X" to me? That "X", which is coming with the "box". Is it an "active" box? And how active is that box? What is it doing?
Hahaha You almost got me there!
Halfways I started to turn pale my heart started to beat faster and then I remembered 1st of April! Phu.. I had a really good laugh! Thank you guys!
genious
You really got me until the middle of the text, then I realized: "No, that can't be..." - *think*... 1st April! *hahahahaha*
theme
Love the new theme
clickIt [tm]
I woke up in the morning with a strange feeling. Probably, I heard something clicked. I got up from the bed and it clicked again. Then I went to the bathroom, opened the water and heard the same tiresome sound. I washed my face while the clicking had became much louder. I was really surprised, and started looking for the source. After the balcony, computer, TV-set, window, etc were IEXPLORed I came back to the bathroom and noticed that the sound was going exactly from the lavatory pan. "Poor little johnny" - I thought, and pushed the button. What do you think? It clicked, and nothing happened. I looked inside and observed a large blue screen with a dump of all the pan's contents. It paled to black and got MONOchrome colors. The latter made me tremble like a lonely leave on a tree which couldn't resist the strong wind of unsaved changes. The whole world became pale and was clicking on and on with double strength. The comparison I imagined seemed really romantic, so I could't help coming up to my piano, though I nither had played it for about 10 years, nor had got an instrument at home, but it appeared just after another click. I was pressing buttons but all of them were sounding the same note. And it was C#. First I thought something was wrong there, but then I got used and liked the single note all the pianos in the world could produce. I felt myself a great mad composer like Mozart or Bach and pressed the buttons unleashing the madness.
Some time passed, good (really good and kind) people in white coats came to my place, dressed me in a comfortable easy-fitting shirt of the same beautiful white color. Now I am a happy programmer. I do C#, serf the Inter.NET and smile mysteriousy every time anything clicks.
Re: What a horrible look!
1st april is "Fool's day" or "Poisson d'avril" , it's the day to make fun of naive persons !!
Xbox should be number 1's april fools joke
WTF was the first thing that came to mind , but after reading that 1 word Xbox i imediately knew it had to be april fools day
Great Joke though :)))
it even got my GF laughing :)
Anyway to remove the horrible link to fake slashdot ?
If you haven't seen it yet, don't go.
Good Try
I knew a few sites would be doing something funny....
Happy April fools......
Loved it, loved it!
Sorry guys, but I wasn't fooled for long, as I was on the alert after slashdot's QT article.
But it was cool anyway :)
Ok...I was fooled....
Thanks for the reminder it's April 1. This goes up there with the Canadian Radio station last year that announced the release of the $5 coin on April 1 to replace the $5 bill in Canada.
Mark
i thought you were hacked
As I was reading throught this article, I kept thinking to myself that some really talented microsoft enthusiast who happened to know about some security flaw in PHP hacked you. I'm glad to hear that I was "fooled".
Ouch
Sorry, but htis new color scheme really hurts. I rather preferred the old colors, because the page looked more like the concept behind Freshmeat: clean, neat, easy to navigate. And for those out there who don't know what C# (or "C Sharp") is I provide some info:
C# is a programming language invented by Micro$oft. It's a migration between C/C++ and Java. Generally I'd say it's quite a good idea, if it wasn't made by Micro$oft. Many people say it's only been made to provide a counterpart to Java with the use Windows as platform instead of a platform-independend code. Also it still has quite a lot of bugs. For example the way it handles Objects and Threads: If a new object/thread is created and there isn't enough memory it forgets either one of the older or the new object/thread. I don't mean delete but really forgets! The forgotten object/thread simply goes to nirvana without notification to the system or user.
I don't want to say it's a bad idea to use C# but I'd rather wait until it is far more reliable. Just because the code behind Freshmeat is more than one year old it doesn't mean it's outdated. As long as it's reliable and able to handle all requests I would prefer to stick to the old code and wait a bit longer 'till C# is ready to use for the masses. Also, if you really decide to use Micro$oft's insecure "Passport" technology I'll have to think twice to keep on using your site as a registered user.
Have a lot of Fun!
Peter Ludikovsky
MS Finally wins
Its good that you open source junkies finally realize that MS is da bomb and open source blows.
LOL THIS IS THE BEST GIFT YOU COULD GIVE FOR APRIL 1!!!!
Save your eyes - go to [My Preferences]
You can revert to the "baby blue" skin by jumping to your [My Preferences] page.
I was truly afraid of this "XBox Skin" until I read the article. Pretty darn funny. Funnier still how many people ignore the calendar and fall for this stuff.
slashdot = goatse
I thought the link to /. really pointing goatse was funny, sometimes I wonder :)
Please return the old color scheme once A1 is over
but I appreciate your efforts to make Freshmeat look funny this day.
great fun, but...
I really enjoyed that article, indeed this year's best April fool hoax!
But could you please switch back to the old color scheme? This stuff really hurts my eyes...
The gods save me from 4/1!!
I really hate 4/1! I was never fond of April Fools jokes* to begin with, but now it's nearly impossible to deal with. Every site in existence is running some kind of 4/1 joke and it basically makes today worthess WRT info gathering.
* Ok, the reason I hate Apris Fools day is because I am THE MOST GULLABLE living being in the history of the universe. I am not exagerating, either. I will fall into the most unreal jokes and tricks no matter how obvious they might be.
color scheme
I had to see an eye surgeon after visiting freshmeat today. Guess I'll sue.
Re: Ok, done reading and now I'm ready to hurt you.
> you've completely lost base with all of your users.
That's what you think. Actually, ALL YOUR BASE ARE...
*cough*. Sorry.
Re: theme
> Love the new theme
Please, change that horrible black background back to white!
Re: theme
> Love the new theme
Are you high or drunk?
the great betrayal - the moving to the .NET platform
Well, to be honest, it came as a shock for me. It simply didn't fit among the ideas I had about the software world. How there can a site dedicated to open source development embrace such a sollution ? I thought they represented an exponent of the free movement, a header to quality.
I sincerely have reasons to believe that someone at Freshmeat's HQ's has been bought by MS. I have no other explanation for this happening.
Or, could this be the 1st of July ? :)
April fools!!!
ROFL! How funny! I would've never thought of this. lol! Anyway, the site runnin' a lil slow today....
Whoops.
Dang it. I keep forgetting that it's April Fools Day. I was getting really worried.
In fact, I was fooled until they referred to ZDNet as "this really cool site we found."
That's pretty funny, I suppose.
New colours?
Someone told me that you changed your site to green-on-black colours today.... how is this any different than usual? My vt100 terminal always looks green-on-black.
green!
Hey, green is definitely better! At least it's not blue.
Funny about passport.
Getting Worked Over!!!
I have been thinking for weeks on who to emotionally or physically scar on April Fools Day. Damn, all the time I was reading the article, I was being WORKED; I was the one who was bent over on the table and spanked. I tip my hat to the victor (Freshmeat.NET). Well, if you are serious, may the Gods of pang, anguish, and torture rain upon you like HAILSTONES on a Honda.
Re: Ok, done reading and now I'm ready to hurt you.
> That's what you think. Actually, ALL
> YOUR BASE ARE...
>
>
>
> *cough*. Sorry.
>
I hate you Jeff... Patrick too. You both made me cry :~(
Bravo
Congratulations on this new chapter in Freshmeat history, I for one, embrace this brave new world of opensource pay-per-access. Perhaps this is the way us OSS programmers will be able to make money on our free code.
Do you take Paypal?
I hope this is an April Fool's joke
After being outraged for at least 10 minutes, I remembered the calendar. <B>This is some sort of April fool's joke, right?</B> Please tell me it's joke.
<I>Please tell me it's a joke so I can click my red shoes together and go back to Kansas...</I>
heavy sigh...
The really sad thing is that I know several people who believe those things about C# and Passport.
"Microsoft: Standards were meant to be proprietary."
Re: The gods save me from 4/1!!
winer !
4/1 is my birthday and you got no idea how bad it can get .
;)
Thy
Birthday Boy
Born april 1st 8:30 am
being as such , I was not fooled for even half a second . and for you all that could kick yourselves .... don't feel bad . it takes years of torture on 4/1 to be able to catch it easy.
I did find what freshmeat did funny though .
Re: MSDN vs. OSDN
> Ah, oh how relieved I am to hear finally
> the move to industry-standard
> technologies, such as C#, and
> Passport.
>
> Finally the open source world can
> realize that it can't just go off on
> tangents and develop novel technologies
> and protocols, publish them openly and
> expect everyone to collaborate.
>
> [snip]
%
> Finally, we can follow standards
> developed by learned, wise and
> forward-thinking organizations who have
> the finances to spend millions or even
> billions getting things just perfect --
> just right for them to continue leading
> us in specific directions.
>
While I know the tone of your post was sarcastic, I would
like to point out that standards do cost a lot of money. Simply publishing a document is not enough. You have to negotiate with the various interested parties in a fair forum. You need to work out all of the ambiguities in the document. This is why organizations such as ANSI and IEEE exist. The cost is in the politics. For example, Perl might change any day on the whim of Mr. Wall, but every ANSI Common Lisp implementation must adhere to the standard. It's a bigger responsibility for the latter. While
there are certainly free and open-source versions of standardized languages, that doesn't mean that forming the standard was cheap.
Re: MSDN vs. OSDN
> While there are certainly free and
> open-source versions of standardized
> languages, that doesn't mean that
> forming the standard was cheap.
Breaking standards, on the other hand, is obviously cheap.
One example: Microsoft STL
LOL
I had more fun reading the comments than the article
8-) You guys at Freshmeat kill us with that wit!
Green on black is microsoft-like??
What are you talking about? Microsoft.com uses the same blue
and white freshmeat always uses. The new theme is LESS
like microsoft.
Re: LOL
> I had more fun reading the comments than
> the article
> 8-) You guys at Freshmeat kill us with
> that wit!
>
hahahah so true, I havn't been around long but some of the comments are just too funny, an ever funnier thing was the other day my fiance says what site is that, i said freshmean lol, she was like what... hahha
Just for posterity..
it would be nice to have a screen pic of the "new look" for those of us who missed it at the time
BozMo (http://catesfamily.org.uk/)