FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home
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The copy and design of the landing page led me to believe that FreedomBox is an actual box that has all that great software preloaded and ready to go. Which made the unlabeled download button jarring. The text should be changed to something like: FreedomBox is designed to [run on/create] your own inexpensive server at home. It [includes/is built with] free software and offers an increasing number of services ranging from a calendar or jabber server to a wiki or…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 518
- Total comments
- 134
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-09 | FreedomBoxFirst breakout | phantom_oracle | 251 | 59 |
| 2020-12-23 | FreedomBox – Personal Server at Home | 0xmohit | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-02-07 | FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your homeBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | rck | 265 | 75 |