LibreAV.org - FOSS software news and info
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2022 9:40 pm
Hey folks, so I'm making a website; https://libreav.org
It pulls software release feeds as well as various blog feeds, displays the former in both card and river views and the latter on the news page, has information on a larger set of software, a gallery with a selection of software images in random order, and various basic audio (and, later, more video/visual) FOSS infos and links. There's also a moderated submission form for anyone wishing to add an entry.
It has been in alpha, it's now in alphabeta, not yet in beta. This is because I've just fixed the Overview header colours, and things mostly work. Still, there are various bugs in Drupal and its modules that I can't deal with, listed on the Weblog page, and my lack of deeper Drupal ability has hindered proper exporting of configuration so as to make the site itself fully open.
Enjoy, feedback welcome, as are submissions. One day I'll get to implementing moderated changes to existing entries, but, until then, fire a comment or message to me to fix something. Yes there are similar sites, but they do different things. I go through phases of loving and loathing data entry, so expect sporadic additions. Unlike my TnS wiki, I'm avoiding adding software that is in very early development or is old and currently broken.
There is also a chat room with a bot that posts updates, #libreav on Libera.Chat IRC, and I think there is also a way to access that via Matrix. The feed url for the aggregated software update info is https://libreav.org/updates/feed
It pulls software release feeds as well as various blog feeds, displays the former in both card and river views and the latter on the news page, has information on a larger set of software, a gallery with a selection of software images in random order, and various basic audio (and, later, more video/visual) FOSS infos and links. There's also a moderated submission form for anyone wishing to add an entry.
It has been in alpha, it's now in alphabeta, not yet in beta. This is because I've just fixed the Overview header colours, and things mostly work. Still, there are various bugs in Drupal and its modules that I can't deal with, listed on the Weblog page, and my lack of deeper Drupal ability has hindered proper exporting of configuration so as to make the site itself fully open.
Enjoy, feedback welcome, as are submissions. One day I'll get to implementing moderated changes to existing entries, but, until then, fire a comment or message to me to fix something. Yes there are similar sites, but they do different things. I go through phases of loving and loathing data entry, so expect sporadic additions. Unlike my TnS wiki, I'm avoiding adding software that is in very early development or is old and currently broken.
There is also a chat room with a bot that posts updates, #libreav on Libera.Chat IRC, and I think there is also a way to access that via Matrix. The feed url for the aggregated software update info is https://libreav.org/updates/feed
