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I 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, mar
by astrodust 11y ago
I 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.