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Has Github become the new Sourceforge?
by blueflow 4y ago
Has Github become the new Sourceforge?
- openstep 4y agoNope
- gtirloni 4y agoWhy do you think that?
- jjice 4y agoI'm going to wager not. I think this is a classic case of something making it to HN or the HN crowd finding it interesting, but in reality, GitHub is probably doing more than fine and continuing to grow. Or I'm completely wrong.
- bragr 4y agoBetween hosted premium GitHub, and self hosted GitHub enterprise, I think they're doing fine.
- itvision 4y agoA long time ago. Sourceforge has been more or less abandoned/forgotten for the past five years. Some projects continue to stick to it though due to inertia and laziness.
- 411111111111111 4y agoYou interpreted their point very charitably. I think they knew that sourceforge has been effectively dead and is saying here that GitHub is following in it's footsteps. I don't agree with that, but i believe that was the point.
- TonyTrapp 4y agoWhat does a self-hosted GitLab instance have to do with GitHub?
- mbreese 4y agoThe question is whether or not GitHub is losing market/mind share and if we will see a slow migration away from GitHub towards GitLab (self hosted or otherwise). No system is perfect. And at some point the incremental improvements from GitLab will be appealing to a larger set of projects. If enough of the “cool” projects move to GitLab, we will see a SourceForge like shift away. My money long term is on https://sr.ht https://sr.ht . I largely kid — sourcehut doesn’t seem like it is really designed for the masses. And I think that’s the point. But the more I use something like Sourcehut, the more I appreciate the minimal GUI.
- blueflow 4y agoSome Wine components were/are hosted on Github.