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Request creation of free software missing from the 🄯ommons 🗽🐧🐃

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This is a place to ask whether free open source software exists for a particular purpose. If it’s non-existent, specify your software requirements here so your dream can be well articulated for everyone to either laugh at or share the dream and give moral support for you to create it yourself. Or you might even to pitch the idea so well that a developer loves the idea enough to run off and build it for you.

No other community exists for this purpose but there are some loosely related ones. If existing software closely delivers what you need but is missing a feature, you might post a wishlist/feature request here or in !bugs@sopuli.xyz.

The FSF has a software directory that can help with finding software.

Loosely related decentralised communities generally for FOSS:

There is also foss@beehaw.org but I don’t recommend it because the mod is trigger happy with censorship. E.g. if you post about FOSS advocacy it will get removed as it does not relate to any particular FOSS application. There are also many more FOSS forums duplicated in centralised places which are not conducive to the digital rights spirit of free open source software, so they are omitted.

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There is a game, Arimaa, that was invented after humans finally got beat at Chess by machines. The idea was, design it so that the rules would be very easy for humans, but very difficult for computers. Also, make it playable (albeit less fun) with a standard Chess board. Unfortunately, it didn't take that long for computers to beat us at that too... However, it's still a really really cool game!

The community is tiny however, and there hasn't been any way to play online for a while, afaik. I just want a simple Android or web app for playing against bots, or more ambitiously, against other people. If I were to do it myself, I'd probably use Haxe since that's what I know, but honestly I'm not very good at coding.

If one existed, we could start a Lemmy community for it, and try to revitalize the Arimaa fanbase a bit. Maybe even use it to organize some small tournaments.

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