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It sounds like this is trying to coin a new term. I hadn't heard the word forge used to mean an all-in-one git+issue tracker+project mgmt+etc. suite before.
by davidkellis 2y ago
It sounds like this is trying to coin a new term. I hadn't heard the word forge used to mean an all-in-one git+issue tracker+project mgmt+etc. suite before.
- lfam 2y agoEver heard of Sourceforge?
- photonthug 2y agoThis is a bad association even for people that recognize it. Presumably there were good years but most will probably remember the ugly endgame with awkward UX and weird ads masquerading as fake download links.
- astrange 2y agoI don't remember any era of sourceforge where it had good UI. I also don't remember anyone ever calling it a "software forge".
- coolgoose 2y agoThis is such an interesting thing of generational difference, since I remember sourceforge fondly before the crazy era of so many ads.
- yencabulator 2y agoNow that I think of it, Sourceforge is perhaps the first good example of enshittification in this domain that I can think of. The thing about enshittification is, first you need to eyeballs and brand, before you can sully it. Sourceforge was great for a while.
- rdtsc 2y ago> Ever heard of Sourceforge? Yup! That clears it up. It’s the site that serves lots of ads and binary packages of some old software. At least as of the last time I looked some years ago. Ok then, not sure I would want more things like that today to self host, but to each their own.
- tarxvf 2y agoThe term is decades old at this point. It doesn't seem to play well outside of the older open source communities, now that github has xeroxed.
- thayne 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)
- oever 2y agoThat Wikipedia page was created in April 2008. > Examples of such services are: Sourceforge.net, GNU Savanah, Google code https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forge_(software)&oldid=206050583 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forge_(software)&...
- prmoustache 2y agoIt is not new. I have heard that word for more than a decade already. I guess you need to know about the foss ecosystem to know it.
- kookamamie 2y agoIt is not new, but also not ubiquous enough to express something everyone understands. Trying to get "forge" across as some kind of defacto term just adds noise to the product description, I think.
- IshKebab 2y agoI also knew it but look at the number of comments saying "what is a forge?" here - it's clearly not a good description.
- lamontcg 2y agoYeah, it is funny to read all the assertions that everyone knows what a "forge" refers to in the middle of all the threads wondering wtf a "forge" is...
- 000ooo000 2y agoOnce upon a time, a lot of software was released/available through "source forge", which is pretty self-explanatory in the context of software publishing. Then a decade ago, SourceForge shit the bed and destroyed its reputation. I'd bet that most of the developers saying they've never heard of "forge" in this context have entered in the industry in that time.
- thunderbong 2y agoThe first time I heard that word was in Sourceforge, decades ago.
- thiht 2y agoIt’s not new, it’s outdated and they’re trying to make it come back.