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Freeware Guide is gone(?)
Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 5:03 pm
by Midas
Freeware Guide (
https://www.freeware-guide.com/) was for years a reputed and valuable resource where a comprehensive and well curated list of free software could be found.
A while ago (last October) I noticed its updates had stopped -- which was odd since
FG had been known to me for years because of its constant daily updates. Well, I thought, all good things come to an end, at least the software listings will remain for future reference.
Not so, it seems, as I was checking on it today only to be greeted by the following image-only notice.
Re: Freeware Guide is gone(?)
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 9:05 am
by loin2kolpotoru
Disappointing news indeed.
Re: Freeware Guide is gone(?)
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 3:35 pm
by Midas
BTW, Wayback Machine snapshots are at
web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.freeware-guide.com/.
The last working one was taken March 12 -- I didn't test any download links, but they should be OK for the time being as they generally pointed back to programs' homepages.
Re: Freeware Guide is gone(?)
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 4:07 pm
by webfork
And looks from the archive.org page that it was a 20 year run, too. Sad news, indeed.
Re: Freeware Guide is gone(?)
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 3:56 pm
by Mixture
@Midas,
I did test the download links. Every date I tried, even the first one (August 2000), and all returned a dead link.
Re: Freeware Guide is gone(?)
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 3:40 am
by Midas
Mixture wrote: ↑I did test the download links. Every date I tried, even the first one (August 2000), and all returned a dead link.
Shoot, that is really bad news.
Re: Freeware Guide is gone(?)
Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2020 10:59 pm
by Special
What is even the point of the Wayback Machine if none of them work?
Re: Freeware Guide is gone(?)
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2020 11:23 am
by rbon
I have browse the domain info trough Whois service
https://www.whois.com/whois
You can find info about freeware-guide.com on this page
https://www.whois.com/whois/freeware-guide.com
- domain expires on 2021-04-10
- the registration of domain has been updated on 2020-04-28.
so i think that's only a temporary mistake.