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Who in this current world wants to create or promote a growing community of free software developers, and chooses SourceForge as a platform instead of GitHub or
by j1elo 8y ago
Who in this current world wants to create or promote a growing community of free software developers, and chooses SourceForge as a platform instead of GitHub or GitLab?
Not that other alternatives are bad, but let me insist: especially if the intent is to attract more developers, GitHub has been THE choice already for several years.
- DaiPlusPlus 8y agoIsn’t SourceForge synonymous with aggressive and intrusive advertisements all over the site and didn’t they get in trouble for inserting adware and spyware into projects’ binary downloads?
- snazz 8y agoThey did wrap installers in malware but have stopped now. Regardless, the site is very poorly designed and makes for a bad developer and user experience. To users and potential contributors, using SourceForge is synonymous with not caring.
- honeywhite 8y agoI've registered a custom domain, which will be our primary user-facing point of contact. Developers use SF essentially purely as a Mercurial host; everything else is run over eMail.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- honeywhite 8y agoProblem with those two is the first three letters. I'm fine with Bitbucket but decided against it in the near-term. Long-term, we'll probably move toward it.