At what point did the Awesome-lists purpose change from "Here's stuff I personally verified to be pretty awesome" to "Here's a list of stuff I came across when searching but I have no idea about the quality of stuff"?

Not that having some sort of collection/index is bad or anything, it's just way less useful than a curated list of things you actually find "awesome" and related to some topic.

For the ones who weren't around at the "creation" of awesome-lists, this I think is the origin: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/main/awesome.md

> If you want your list to be included on awesome, try to only include actual awesome stuff in your list. After all, it's a curation, not a collection.

Today, the name remains, but not for curation.

We keep re-inventing Yahoo but never doing a good enough job of it.

I'm always amazed at how many stars these glorified `list.txt` repos get

Does the api work again? It has been offline each time I tried it over the last month

this is cool, thank you deepseek.