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Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

We're in the process of fully removing ourselves from Sourceforge (LXDE).

At work (Pootle), we're also moving our mailing lists away from Sourceforge. They were the last bit of SF we still used.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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I notice they're using Google Groups for mailing lists - how have people found Google Groups as a technical mailing list provider?

It's not bad, to be honest, just a bit awkward to use if you don't have a google account (it's sometimes fairly hard to subscribe without one).

I wouldn't recommend it for FOSS projects. Unfortunately, there's not much alternative out there. I'm currently looking at Discourse, which has a mailing list mode. We might move to that.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Our Webmin website, mailing lists, downloads, and a few other things are still running on SourceForge, for the time being. (I guess it counts as "big", with 3+ million downloads a year, it has always been a top-ten project in its category at SF.net.) We moved revision control to github several years ago. We just haven't had time lately to figure out what to do about the SF.net malware situation, but I can't imagine w…

I got malware in the installer for Filezilla on my Mac. They shove malware in all sorts of non-windows stuff these days...

I didn't believe you at first, but I just went to install it and...wow...

https://imgur.com/a/o6cSW

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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I notice they're using Google Groups for mailing lists - how have people found Google Groups as a technical mailing list provider?

I participate in several Google Groups for large projects. I hate it - I find navigation not obvious, discussions aggregated poorly, formatting inconsistent and content not prioritised.

I much prefer discourse or even GitHub issues.

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