Comments on: AcmeFiles.com – emerging (probably) software portal

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:06:41 +0000

@AlexTC

Hm, I don’t think this type of site is so off-the-shelf for specialized CMS to be developed for it. At least I don’t know of one and don’t remember any of software portals running anything other than they developed for themselves.

By: AlexTC

AlexTC — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:18:19 +0000

Anyone knows a script or CMS for making a site similar with these 2? (filehippo and acme)?

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:03:47 +0000

@Nihar

I remember download.com as complete mess – overkill amount of advertisement, numerous splash pages, hard to get to actual download. May have improved in recent years but I stopped visiting long time ago.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:04:27 +0000

I normally use only download.com to go through all types of tools and softwares.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:21:57 +0000

@MK

Define rip-off? :) FileHippo is hardly first software portal. Design is similar, but that’s hardly strange online.

Personally I don’t think that being inspired by FileHippo is bad thing here, it depends a lot on where AcmeFiles goes further. It’s barely week online.

If it would end up direct FileHippo clone – it will lose to it miserably. If it will do more or better or different – we’ll have one more software portal to choose from.

By: MK

MK — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:56:56 +0000

I see a total rip-off. Like you said, copying rarely work.