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Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Is it just me or is anyone else having a tough time trying to wade through all the jargon to figure out what this is actually about?

Sorry for that, I tried to be as clear as possible. May I help you ? Can you precise which jargon ?

I think the issue is grammar, not jargon. There are many grammar mistakes which make it difficult to understand. I recommend you check the text through Grammarly, or ask someone for help reviewing the text.

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Sorry for that, I tried to be as clear as possible. May I help you ? Can you precise which jargon ?

I think the issue is grammar, not jargon. There are many grammar mistakes which make it difficult to understand. I recommend you check the text through Grammarly, or ask someone for help reviewing the text.

Sorry for my poor english ! I'll ckeck grammarly

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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It's alternativeto.com but with a few differences.

My first thought was there are now 15 competing standards, I hope at least this is semantic web or at least scrape friendly.

That's true, we build Alternative knowing the advantages and drawbacks of the market. Besides data, we tried to build tools that help you to make your choices. We relied on scraped data and reviews.

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Hey. I tried to signup, and it redirected me to the login page in the french language. My locale is English. After manually changing the url to use English, and trying to Sign In, it redirected me to the French Signup Page. Something strange is going on.

Thanks for reporting this bug. The problem has been corrected in a new version. It's in production.

Tell me if it persists :)

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Is it just me or is anyone else having a tough time trying to wade through all the jargon to figure out what this is actually about?

No idea what this service? product? vaporvare? does..

You can use Alternative now. It's an online service. More we are to share our knowledge on Alternative faster you will find your software.

Have you tried it?

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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Is it just me or is anyone else having a tough time trying to wade through all the jargon to figure out what this is actually about?

Search for software and alternatives to named software.

Here's the results of a search for "Trello":

https://alternative-a.com/en/search?q=trello&view=list&sort=...

Re: Alternative: A community software search engine

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It's alternativeto.com but with a few differences.

My first thought was there are now 15 competing standards, I hope at least this is semantic web or at least scrape friendly.

"at least scrape friendly"

Decidedly not. If you disable javascript for a search, you get a mostly empty page back.

The results themselves do come from an api at benchmarker.fr, but it wants a bearer token.

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