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I agree SF was awesome in it's day. The Windows guys never really got on board which may be why some of the commentators here don't agree. It was an Open-Sour
by jcoffland 11y ago
I agree SF was awesome in it's day. The Windows guys never really got on board which may be why some of the commentators here don't agree. It was an Open-Source thing before Open-Source was accepted by corporate America.
You can say the UI wasn't great but for it's time it was great. You have to remember this was way before any of the the Web tools people use today, except for PHP, but few use PHP now. These were the days when you had to support IE6 and every browser behaved somewhat differently.
- astrodust 11y agoI don't remember it being awesome, ever, just less crappy than the alternatives. It was like a bit of flotsam in an ocean, better than fending for yourself, marginally. You could roll your own hosting, but it was obnoxious and expensive. SourceForge was, at best, the Geocities of open-source hosting. It really hasn't improved much since then. Also a lot of people still use PHP. I really don't know where you get your numbers. It's just that there's no longer just PHP or Perl, there's dozens of languages that are in play, but the number of PHP devs is surely way higher than when SourceForge launched.
- loganabbott 11y agoWe will vastly improve the UI in time. Just need more than 2 weeks ;)
- jcoffland 11y agoTell me, were you mainly a Windows programer during the SF heyday? I know people use PHP. It's not popular with the cool kids. Maybe you didn't get the memo.
- astrodust 11y agoNo. I've was raised on IRIX, SunOS and Linux, and as much as I loathe everything about PHP I won't delude myself into thinking nobody uses it. The industry is a lot more than just "the cool kids", you know.