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sounds like the new owners understand the mistakes of their predecessors.
This is a very good development, but it's difficult to see what SF could do better than Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket, they are bogged down by 15 years of technical debt and a ruined reputation. Maybe they could retool as a Cloudflare/Akamai competitor? Their network of mirrors is probably the one thing still distinguishing them. Or they could go full-FOSS and somehow integrate with distributions, like a cross-distro Launc…
When I have a dependency problem ( usually some arbitrary version of a lib that needs to be compiled and linked ) it's much easier if the project is on Sourceforge where I can just go and read down an index to find the appropriate release, which is not necessarily the latest one, and hit 'Download' to receive a nice bz2 which will de-tar into a buildable structure.
At that point in time I don't want to fork the project, or engage socially with other developers, or pick through tags to piece-together a checkout that will link against the dependee. I just want something compilable ASAP.
Perhaps Sourceforge could find a niche there, organising the bazaar of projects on the Git* sites into something sane.
This is a very good development, but it's difficult to see what SF could do better than Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket, they are bogged down by 15 years of technical debt and a ruined reputation. Maybe they could retool as a Cloudflare/Akamai competitor? Their network of mirrors is probably the one thing still distinguishing them. Or they could go full-FOSS and somehow integrate with distributions, like a cross-distro Launc…
What distinguishes SourceForge is that it has a lot of end-user features. Project owners can set up forums, a download area, a support area (distinct from the bug tracker) and more. That's probably the reason why a lot of end-user focused projects ("legacy win32 apps") keep sticking with SourceForge despite everything.
Their new advertised speed test has servers only in US. Completely unusable for the rest of the world (unless you need to measure your interned speed against US servers).
sounds like the new owners understand the mistakes of their predecessors.
For me it is too late. SF used to be the place I looked first. Recently I wanted to download windirstat and could only find it hosted on SF so I opted instead to LiveCD and just use some gnu tool.
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What distinguishes SourceForge is that it has a lot of end-user features. Project owners can set up forums, a download area, a support area (distinct from the bug tracker) and more. That's probably the reason why a lot of end-user focused projects ("legacy win32 apps") keep sticking with SourceForge despite everything.
Yeah, GitHub is not a great user experience if you just want to download the installer for some program.
They seem to be doing everything that was asked of them at the height of the sleazy days: - They removed all bundled adware - They scan the hosted packages for adware bundled by the developer and warn accordingly - They removed deceptive download buttons This is really very good news, and I'm willing to give them another shot. To quote from later in the Reddit thread: It brought in quite a lot of revenue, but obvious…
These seem to be no end of trouble when it comes to abusing all trust in an attempt at increasing short term profits.
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What distinguishes SourceForge is that it has a lot of end-user features. Project owners can set up forums, a download area, a support area (distinct from the bug tracker) and more. That's probably the reason why a lot of end-user focused projects ("legacy win32 apps") keep sticking with SourceForge despite everything.
Yeah, GitHub is not a great user experience if you just want to download the installer for some program.