# How do you feel about Julia Observer?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-you-feel-about-julia-observer/18577>\
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**Created:** [December 11, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-you-feel-about-julia-observer/18577 "2018-12-11T21:21:33Z")\
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Hi @nalimilan ,

FYI [JuliaObserver.com](http://JuliaObserver.com) has **been down over a week now, and its not clear if anyone is working on it .**

Also, All the alternative “work arounds” are **extremely cumbersome, way too far down in the weeds** for a **searchable functional overview of available Julia packages** , and so **would be very weak substitutes** for [JuliaObserver.com](http://JuliaObserver.com) .

Would you or anyone else on this thread know who to contact, offer help to etc. ?

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> [@Being informed about new registered packages and releases](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/being-informed-about-new-registered-packages-and-releases/30070/19):
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> Package registry is just a plain git repository with a bunch of TOML files. So, why not read the data directly? Here is a one-linear to list newly added packages in past 100 commits: cd ~/.julia/registries/General && \ git diff 'HEAD~100..origin/master' -- Registry.toml \ | grep -E '^\+[^+]' \ | sed -E 's/.\*name = "([^"]+)".\*/\1/g' (Of course, it would be much more robust to parse the TOML files and compare the Dict in Julia.) But I guess you need to scrape github release page t…

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