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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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[-] tvblb@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Apache. I get why nginx is the new hotness, but apache/mod_event still slaps.

[-] laird_dave@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Nginx is FLOSS, too so you'd need to compare Apache to IIS and that is just unfair.

I think nginx is the better web server but what do I know, I mostly use python3 -m http.server for my immediate needs.

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