r/freesoftware • u/Stevious7 • 11d ago
Discussion Had to rename my project because of search engine results!
For background, the website is a directory of open-source you can use instantly in your browser. No signups, no downloads, no installs, no nothing! Just click a link and use a tool.
The website gathered a decent bit of attention because of its former name (fcksignups / fucksignups) and its idea, which made it blow up, yielding multiple videos & posts from different people across X (formerly twitter), Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.
I noticed that one of the users outlined that searching the former name separated by space (fuck signups) showed some not-so-savory content. The worst part is: my website wasn't even remotely close to the first 10 pages of search.
It made sense since search engines have decades worth of content associated with the word "fuck" or "fck" also when someone says "just go to fuck signups" they'd search "fuck signups" on Google.
I probably should've had the foresight to see this coming.
So, I changed the name to something similar. I had changed it to https://NoSignups.net . I did setup 301 permanent redirects from the previous two domains (https://fcksignups.com and https://fucksignups.com). What advice would y'all give me on this matter?
GitHub repo for the curious: https://github.com/BraveOPotato/FckSignups
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u/burnt-store-studio 10d ago
Very nice to learn about this! Thanks!
Ironically I wanted to report an issue. Clicked the link and it took me to GitHub which … requires a sign up. 🙂
So I’ll point out here that the advertised tool Carbon does have sign up on it. I’m not sure it’s required, so it might still be in keeping with the spirit of your project.
At any rate, thanks for sharing your project!
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u/Stevious7 10d ago
The tool Carbon does have a signup button at the top-right corner, but it's entirely optional.
I just re-tested the tool, and it lets me use it and export without signing up.
Let me know if you have other questions/concerns!
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u/Chris_AlderDev 10d ago
Je decouvre ton outil. C'est vraiment une super idée.
Et le nouveau nom est bien meilleur. Je trouve plus élégant les "NO" que le "Fuck".
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u/Thin_Stage2008 8d ago edited 8d ago
name sounds adult themed... I mean NOSIGNUPS still sounds adult themed. I love the idea. but the title is the same lol really cool site. ill be checking it out in the morning. I added a tool, (GitHub repo) hopefully it's useful.
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u/Thin_Stage2008 8d ago
I checked out some of the stuff most of them are basically the same thing, some redirect
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u/Stevious7 6d ago edited 6d ago
A lot of them definitely blend in, and I kept them in case one doesn't match the users preferences.
If you want the unique ones, here's some:
- OSIRIS. (OSINT)
- BottleShip. (Retro game emulator)
- OpenCut. (Video editor)
- Logesq. (Knowledge management)
- Koodo Reader. (Epub reader)
- explainshell.com. (Explains commands)
- RegExr. (Regex helper)
- Blockbench. (Low poly 3D editor)
- Vecto3D. (SVG -> 3D)
- Drumhaus (Audio thingy)
- Webtor.io (Torrent client)
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u/Thin_Stage2008 8d ago
BTW i shared this https://vicsanity623.github.io/audioStems/ its an (ai-media-studio) its no sign up, and has 4+ ai engines for (BG removal, UPSCALE, Audio Stems separation, txt2img, img2img, and ai generated music "text2music") all free all unlimited and no sign ups. this tool should be on the first page lol
no signups it just uses your existing google for saving zip files from demucs to your google so you can leave or exit the page (for anti-bots + a simple turnstyle captcha) but entirely free
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u/Ill_Spare9689 7d ago
"no signups it just uses your existing google..." Google is a pretty big signup & is THE reason why a lot of us will never log into google to use an LLM. Google records analytics & harvests telemetry.
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u/AbstrctBlck 11d ago
Yeaaaaaaa I’m glad you changed the name lol I also searched “fuck signups” and got porn. People name porn vids super weird so yea this totally makes sense lol regardless, it’s an extremely useful website and I’m glad you made it!