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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? (feddit.dk)

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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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[–] specklespacle@beehaw.org 1 point 3 years ago

FOSS is going to struggle to have good UX forever becuase you usually need one coherent vision for good UX and that's the antithesis to FOSS projects, the only exceptions being ones run exclusively by one company.

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