When I seen the title, I thought, 'a search engine that allows me to search for communities that fit an inputted search criteria, cool!' Sadly, it doesn't seem to be the case and it is more of a tool for searching alternatives to popular software.
Alternative: A community software search engine
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Re: Alternative: A community software search engine
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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.
We provide an open search route API :
https://benchmarker.fr/opensearch?q={searchTerms}
You can then configure a redirection folowing these guidelines:
Re: Alternative: A community software search engine
#23When I seen the title, I thought, 'a search engine that allows me to search for communities that fit an inputted search criteria, cool!' Sadly, it doesn't seem to be the case and it is more of a tool for searching alternatives to popular software.
Indeed, this is not the problem we are answering, but your first though seems a great idea.
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#24searching for "dns" gives a blank page https://alternative-a.com/en/search?q=dns&view=list&sort=[%2... While searching for "bind9" gives me "Your research isn't recorded!" hmmm
Thanks for the report. "bind9" is not recorded in the database yet. "dns" is recorded as a category but without software liked to it that's why the page is blank.
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You are right! Alternative is similar to AlternativeTo and SaaSHub. We are mainly if you are not connected to the Alternative dashboard. In the offline version, the search results are presented as a list. Moreover, softwares are added by the community. Nevertheless there are differences! When using Alternative without sign in, we differ by : - search filters that allow you to build your requirements - a display of se…
You explain what the website does not but so much what problem is being solved. I use alternativeto a lot, and never had an issue finding what I need. I usually type the name of an app related to what I need and browse the alternatives. Usually I'd also select a few filters, for example the operating system or open source. At not point did I think "I can't do x or y, and if only there was a similarity index or robots…
1. There's no alternativeto in french.
2. With those tools, we think you'll make your choice faster even with a very long results list. I think you deserve these tools as a counterpart for your work on Alternative. We build it thinking to corporate needs.
If you are ok with Alternativeto that's fine. :)
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#26Great design, I found great results concerning Airtable. Interesting site.
Thanks
Re: Alternative: A community software search engine
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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
At the very least I recommend fixing the headline to avoid confusion:
Introducing Alternative, the community-powered search engine for software
Re: Alternative: A community software search engine
#28Hey. 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 :)
I signed up and was presented with a French dashboard page. Everything was in English before. I manually changed the 'fr' in the URL to 'en' and then everything seemed to work fine :-).
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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?
Not to be flippant, but I _still_ don't know what it does. Am I just ignorant of current trends? Does the name provide enough information that folks will immediately know what it is?
Honestly, a short paragraph describing what it does would be really helpful.
Some of your target audience may be the "poke around spend time finding out what it does" type. But another swathe could be of the "tell me what this is before I spend any time looking at it" sort.
Re: Alternative: A community software search engine
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Thanks for reporting this bug. The problem has been corrected in a new version. It's in production. Tell me if it persists :)
I signed up and was presented with a French dashboard page. Everything was in English before. I manually changed the 'fr' in the URL to 'en' and then everything seemed to work fine :-).
I had this same experience, and between this experience and the GP comment -- how in the world is asking users to do URL surgery considered a valid UX? To say nothing of the hubris of ignoring the `accept-language:` header sent from every browser since I can remember