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Sourceforge brings me back to mid 2000s, learning programming and studying stuff like irrlicht and ogre3d. It's clear why sourceforge went away - GitHub is jus
by moonchrome 5y ago
Sourceforge brings me back to mid 2000s, learning programming and studying stuff like irrlicht and ogre3d.
It's clear why sourceforge went away - GitHub is just better in every way imaginable.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoSourceforge became almost useless a long time before GitHub came on the scene though. AFAIR they were taken over by a commercially focused company and then added more advertising and inserted shovelware/malware into downloads. Again, my recollection (as a non-programmer) was Subversion repos were popular at this time -- launchpad.net linked source code was nearly all SVN -- and the likes of Tucows for MS Windows binaries, and other non-SF sites like Freshmeat became useful again. Then Linus came out with `git` and the ecosystem shifted. TL;DR to my recollection there was a gap between SF's decline and GitHub's rise, so the GitHub didn't cause SF's decline?
- InfiniteRand 5y agoI agree with this recollection, there was a gap period (although that might have been a time when Github was less prominent but still existing)
- fmajid 5y agoMy recollection is that Sourceforge’s failure to embrace Git was their undoing, and the malware came later as they started circling the drain.