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I like Github a lot, and SourceForge has definitely dropped the ball, but is anyone else tired of linkbait article titles? SourceForge has a ton of projects sti

by hvs 15y ago

I like Github a lot, and SourceForge has definitely dropped the ball, but is anyone else tired of linkbait article titles? SourceForge has a ton of projects still. They didn't "lose" anymore than Github "won". Competition is trip not a destination. Nothing is for sure, and there's no reason why SourceForge can't improve their service and take back more of the market. Us in the tech world need to stop thinking that something needs to "win" and "lose". It has fueled way to many (idiotic) religious wars about editors, compilers, and other technologies. Solve problems. Make the world a better place. And quit trying to find "losers". /rant

duskwuff 15y ago
> SourceForge has a ton of projects still. That may be true, but I suspect that many, if not most, new projects aren't created on SourceForge anymore. Most statistics are lies, of course, but Github currently has 2M repositories (including forks), as compared to Sourceforge's 300K projects. Seeing as how SF is over ten years old and Github was launched in 2008, that says to me that Github's where the real action is now.
- ams6110 15y ago
  How many of those forks contain anything useful, though? Not that most SourceForge projects aren't abandonware, either.