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Just fyi your login page layout is busted on my phone.

Same with Netdata (DataDog alternative) where only the agent seems to be open-sourced (so is DataDog’s BTW). Seems like a bait-and-switch.

Yeah, AT managed to gather good non-spammy ratings somehow—even though I do sometimes suspect that certain high ratings are artificial, but those are isolated cases. The site also clearly prioritizes open-source software, raising it even among higher-rated proprietary apps.

Since AT is crowdsourced, perhaps instead of discussing yet another list of alternatives, fellow HNers could go upvote software that they already use. Though this does require registration, of course.

huh, I had assumed they were the same folks. Thanks for pointing that out, the name is pretty close.

It would be great if such a site gave a SCORE for the open sourceness of the product in question. It has been becoming more and more common to have "open source" projects that are either not developed in the open, or not provide all the functionality needed without buying the "enterprise" version. Some projects don't provide installable binaries on some or all platforms either. Other metrics could be having an up to date repo, number of committers, number of recent bugs/issues not acknowledged in their repo etc.

This looks beautiful. Are the alternatives simply listed in order by their GitHub stars? How do you handle projects hosted on Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc. Surely it wouldn't be fair to do a 1-1 comparison, right?

Have you looked at alternatives to your site like AlternativeTo and LibHunt? Do you plan on using any of that data as well or perhaps even linking to pages on those relevant sites? Sorry for the unsolicited advice, but I feel like being able to take advantage of the work already done by those platforms in some way could be a big step towards setting you apart. Just saying as someone who uses/contributes to AlternativeTo a lot

You might want to add some tags to the Vaultwarden entry - I was just in the process of submitting it because it wasn't tagged under password managers, when I stumbled across it by accident when looking for the original Bitwarden entry.

Thought this exact thing, sad to see brave being recommended and not firefox itself :(

Perhaps this goes back to the logo having copyright (not Creative Commons) which is why IceWeasel and IceCat were created.

Are you implying it's not both an alternative and open-source? ;)

That setting exists, you can show only open source, or only proprietary, or only Linux, etc.

For a more updated version of privacytoolsio:

https://www.privacyguides.org/

(Some history: the privacytoolsio website was created by the subreddit r/privacytoolsio. A while ago the founder was kicked out after being inactive for over a year, but that founder happened to own the website domain and refused to give it to the remaining moderators. The founder also started adding affiliate links into the privacytoolsio website. So the remaining mods decided to rebrand completely, creating a new sub r/privacyguides and a new website as well. You can read more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/pnhn4a/rpriv...)

'office' and 'docs' both have relevant matches.

Here's a similar list:

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

No, dang says they don't work well, which is not the same thing.

Remove the "author=dang" and you can see that it's not a sentiment rarely (ever?) expressed by anyone else.

Look for 'docs'.

Having XML/JSON stored in DB is pretty common actually (sometimes you need to store same/related info with different "schemas").

Storing Python and JS.....WTF?

GitLab Community Edition is MIT licensed. I don't know that it gets much more open source than that. I've survived at very very large companies on CE, never needing any of the paid features.

RabbitMQ is a more natural alternative to SQS than Kafka I’d say. Redis can also be leveraged as a message broker depending on your needs.

Going simpler as possible:

Redis has a simple (but extremely powerful) Pub/Sub implementation[1] that should get you going for a long time.

Postgres also have a simple notify API[2] you can mix it with your own tables and just "notify" that some changes were made (when people say you can do anything with postgres nowadays they are not joking).

You probably can also roll your own implementation in any ACID database. Just keep adding records to an event table and consume them in scheduled batches. Should be more than enough for non real-time applications.

[1]: https://redis.io/docs/manual/pubsub/ [2]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html

If SQS meets your needs then you don't need an alternative, but there are Azure Storage Queues and GCP PubSub are the closest.

The right solution to that problem is to avoid open core. Instead, use products that are fully open source, so that even the "commercial" features are free.

Verdaccio is an NPM registry server implementation, for hosting private packages. NPM doesn't provide an implementation for the server, they have their own closed source version that they provide as a free/tiered SAAS. The CLI and API specification are open source though

Yes?

I would put mastodon as a competitor of Facebook, don't you?

There have been ... incidents in their development.

At one point they misrepresented themselves as collecting donations for bloggers who a) had no relation with Brave and b) didn't want donations or monetisation of their content.

At another point it seemed like they were intercepting ads on pages and replacing them with their own ads. Not sure exactly what the truth of that situation is.

Yeah, tokenisation, BAT etc. HN is extremely sceptical about cryptocurrency, IMHO with very good reason.

As mentioned by another user - under the covers they inserted their own referral codes into links to online vendors.

All in all it's a sequence of dodgy decisions that tell me they put money above honesty.

Probably because of https://basicattentiontoken.org/

For a group that's largely bet their fortunes on internet companies, it's kind of funny that anything crypto is so toxic here, but that's probably the reason.

The actual browser is under good technical stewardship from what I know. It's essentially not-evil Chrome with an optional crypto-for-ads monetization model, a crypto wallet, and some primitive default privacy and adblocking tools.

It suffers from the same technical deficiencies as Chrome (installing addons is harder than it should be, addon API is weak compared to firefox, Google controls the "store" for extensions), but I'd recommend it over any other Chromium-based browser.

Probably because it's a browser wrapped in a crypto wallet, and there is virtually no use case for cryptocurrencies that are not powered by scams or crime.

I'm not saying there couldn't be, but so far, the entire ecosystem is just burning gigawatts of energy to sell jpegs of monkeys.

Oh yeah, and it removes ads from web pages and then shows its own. I'm always surprised people aren't more offended by that.

Also, because their build system is closed source; my personal perspective is that if I cannot build your project, it is not "open source"

I have taken some inspiration from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave) and I think I got it to compile all the way through once, but that's not nearly the same as how easy it is to build -- and then run -- Firefox every day

People on HN can both like that some piece of software is OSS and dislike it for other reasons. For example, Chromium is also open source, and most criticisms of "Chrome" aren't exactly limited to the closed-source additions (like Widevine and enhanced grammar fixing) Google puts in after the fact, eg. Manifest v3 which will touch both Chromium and Chrome.

It's an ad network that replaces ads you get on the website with their own, wrapped up in a fancy token.

It's Chromium-based, so using it supports Google's dominance over the web.

Interesting, I don't think I've noticed the same criticism for Brave. But many times when it has come up in discussions at work, people will say they don't want to use it and don't trust it because Brendan Eich is behind it. He donated money to Prop 8 in California many years ago (which at the time, was very popular. More than half the people in California supported it), and he was fired/cancelled for it (long before the term "cancel culture" was a thing). Unfortunately for Eich, the culture shifted radically during that time, and he became a target (see OkCupid[1]). IIRC it was like 7 or 8 or so years after Prop 8 that the news leaked, and like most Americans Eich had changed his mind on it. But it didn't/doesn't matter, he has been branded and is forever tainted.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536