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Themes.org Reborn at Freshmeat

Posted by timothy on from the stick-candy-in-your-eye dept.

GSpot writes: "While doing my weekly surf to see if there has been any change in one of my favorite websites, themes.org is being redirected to themes.freshmeat.net and seemingly has been reborn yet again. The previous incarnation had a dreadful interface that was difficult to navigate and when it worked it was painfully sssssllllllooooowwwww. The current version is upon a first impression a much more pleasant experience. I plan on visiting often." Mirotrem points out this brief history of themes.org running on the site (written by Chris D.), detailing the moves the site has made to this point. (Freshmeat, Themes.org, and Slashdot are all part of the world-controlling conspiracy under the VA Software umbrella better known as the Sinister Andover Keiretsu.)

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  1. Great but.... by tutal · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's been some time since Slashcode 2.25 has come out (which has the ability to import themes), yet I have not found any slash themes. It might be a good idea to add a themes section to freshmeat (or maybe sorceforge, or even on the slashcode page).

  2. A poll and a spot on the frontpage... by not_cub · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ... Wow, this must be really important news for nerds.

    You know, when your masters at VA tell you to get some eyeballs on another of their sites, you might want to communicate and decide who is going to do it, rather than all rushing off to plaster it all over slashdot.

    not_cub

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  3. Left out on history by Monkeyman334 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What I don't get is why OSDN decided to cuts its *volunteer* staff. First, developing for themes.org was a pain as it was. They had a VPN and wouldn't give access to new comers, even though I feel I'm a part of the community enough to be trusted. But if that wasn't enough, they decided to cut their *volunteer* staff. Which included developers and maintainers. They might start asking for volunteers again, but a lot of the staff I talked to were a little bit bitter and I doubt they will be rejoining. So Chris (who seemed like a nice guy the couple times I talked to him) decided to develop it on his own, which took months even though it seems he's just using the freshmeat code.

    I think one of the mistakes was getting a company to set the deadlines. There was an occassion "No later than this" date, but since it was all volunteer, people wouldn't make long decisions on whether to go out a saturday or develop all night for nothing. So I guess the choices were "Cut the staff", "Pay the staff", or "Stop letting the company make the deadlines". I guess they chose 1 and 3.

    I didn't spend much time on the project, but kept an ear out on things, and never got an explaination for this. So I would like to know, why the staff was cut?