I'm not sure how it works at first glance. OK, let's search for "Word". I'd assume LibreOffice and the like would come up - but instead, I get "WooCommerce" and "Wordle Global, Open Source Alternative to Wordle".
I understand apparently this is not how the page is supposed to be used - but isn't it how an average user would use a service named "opensourcealternative.to"? What am I missing?
True, because their descriptions literally contain the words "Office" and "Docs".
But one of the alleged alternatives for Docs is Athens Research, which is totally unrelated; there's just a link to its "docs" in the description. These are not the docs you are looking for.
And again, "Excel" or "PowerPoint" return zero results. Same goes for "Photoshop".
"Windows" returns, among others (also completely unrelated): "Brave Browser" - because the description happens to mention that the browser works on Windows.
I don't want to sound mean, but it really looks like no effort has gone into matching the open source projects with their proprietary equivalents (that they're suggested to replace). And that makes its name essentially misleading. Given the above, the website doesn't appear to be much more than a glorified data dump of open-source projects in general, possibly trying to exploit the "I see open source, I upvote" knee-jerk reaction.
I understand apparently this is not how the page is supposed to be used - but isn't it how an average user would use a service named "opensourcealternative.to"? What am I missing?