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Never understood those repositories. Always viewed them as a collection of junk.

They’re a kind of modern version of web directories, and they failed for the same reason the original web directories did (spam/self-promotion, and outdated stuff).

The "actual awesome" lists were awesome, as every single software linked in those were good software.

But yeah, once "influencer developers" got a hold of the concept, misunderstood it to be an index rather than a curated list, it stopped loosing any value the concept had.

Now it's just random individuals who want to "own" a collection, but have zero care about the quality, and just merge whatever additions.

They were originally by an influencer developer (Sindre Sorhus), so they were junk from the start.

FWIW, I appreciate their contributions to the ecosystem, in the sense that you can just take whatever they're doing, multiply by -1 in each dimension, and there you have your steering vector towards good ideas.

That is genuinely useful and provides a lot of value.

Sure, but that developer set out to curate a list, not do what seemingly everyone did afterwards, which was just to build the "longest list possible" with zero regards to quality of linked projects.

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