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Can you actually host code on SourceForge? I've been searching for 10 mins in a couple different projects and they only thing I've found is one link to a private SVN server.
Does anyone still use SourceForge after they started embedding adware with their download links? I give them credit for being an early innovator and I know they are under new management as of 2016 and supposedly put that behind them[1] but they have permanently lost my trust. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
PortableApps.com is still hosted on SourceForge. I think we push around 40TB a month through their download servers. We can't afford that bandwidth on our own. Other hosts like Github aren't really designed for projects like ours that have hundreds of different open source apps.
Does anyone still use SourceForge after they started embedding adware with their download links? I give them credit for being an early innovator and I know they are under new management as of 2016 and supposedly put that behind them[1] but they have permanently lost my trust. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
Yeah that was in the area of unforgivable as far as I'm concerned.
That ship has sailed. SourceForge has little to offer in their API: https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/apiplatform/sourceforge/#/port... Bitbucket for comparison: https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/re...
We've come full circle. Except this circle has adware.
Can you actually host code on SourceForge? I've been searching for 10 mins in a couple different projects and they only thing I've found is one link to a private SVN server.
However very few projects choose to. Most just host binaries. And have a github link in the project description.
Never trusting SourceForge again. Downloaded FileZilla once and that was it.
As a consumer of source code, I do not use a graphical web browser to search and download from Sourceforge. A relatively simple http/https client will do. (Occasionally I have used cvs or svn if that is the only access.) Despite any changes in Sourceforge's ownership/management, I have not experienced any problems retrieving source code. I have not tried to use a graphical browser on Sourceforge since the 1990's. No…
> As a consumer of source code, I do not use a graphical web browser to search and download from Sourceforge. A relatively simple http/https client will do. One caveat: all the file download links end in .../download, so if I throw the URL at wget it will save "download?verylongblahblah=blahblah1234567890". I have to use `wget --content-d` (short for content-disposition) to actually save the name correctly. It's real…
Yes it is. There is a certain consistency/uniformity to the url and site structure with Github that Sourceforge does not have, for whatever reason. Not to mention the absence of the mirror choosing routine. I really appreciate the ease and simplicity of Github downloads, which is precisely why I am concerned about the future.
Websense blacklisted Sourceforge after the 2013 DevShare debacle. It has remained blacklisted since. It is blacklisted in many other web application firewalls and content gateways too. Sourceforge is inaccessible from many corporate networks due to this. It will remain inaccessible for many more years to come. It's unfortunate how Sourceforge, once a leader in the open source community, lost the trust and reputation…
Does anyone still use SourceForge after they started embedding adware with their download links? I give them credit for being an early innovator and I know they are under new management as of 2016 and supposedly put that behind them[1] but they have permanently lost my trust. [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under...
To be clear, the new owners did indeed -- not supposedly -- stop that behavior on day-one of their ownership.