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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)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Emacs. Still the best way to edit any kind of text in any context.

[–] Arnaldur 1 points 1 year ago

I've been hoping that some good replacement comes along but they are all lacking significantly. Emacs is the best I've found but it's annoying in many ways that have been fixed by newer alternatives.

Large files, terrible defaults, and elisp come to mind.

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