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Jesus, sourceforge is still on the go?
by ErroneousBosh 7mo ago
Jesus, sourceforge is still on the go?
- SXX 7mo agoMight be it even not using all your code to train AI. Or at least not asking your explicit permission to do it.
- karel-3d 7mo agosourceforge was always very scummy, I think they would definitely use the code for that if they could
- mbreese 7mo agoIt wasn’t always scummy… but there was a definite shift after they got bought. It’s kept getting worse since then. Then again, this was something like 20 years ago. Back then, Sourceforge was something closer to GitHub today. It was the de facto public source repository. You could even get an on-premise version, IIRC. Actually, this is sounding a lot like GitHub these days… not sure what that means.
- ErroneousBosh 7mo agoAs I've said elsewhere, freshmeat.net was better :-)
- mbreese 7mo agoFor project discovery, definitely -- but not as a source code repository. Wow, we're dating ourselves on this, but I remember when it was a big deal that SF.net added SVN support. They apparently didn't turn off CVS until 2017!
- ErroneousBosh 7mo agoYeah, I remember introducing a web dev company to SVN in about oh maybe 2006. Prior to that their "version control" was a webroot full of shit like "index.php", "index.php.old", "index.php.broken", "index.ryan.donottouch.php", "indexTUESDAY.php" and so on. Yeah no, guys, that's not what I meant. Let me just show you this real quick... I wonder if enough of freshmeat still exists on the Wayback machine to make a clone, maybe a skin for forgejo? Simpler times, simpler everything.
- JimDabell 7mo agoNot every conversation has to be a conversation about AI.
- account42 7mo agoNot every conversation but as long as GitHub is the most popular code hosting platform it's very much relevant to that discussion.
- JimDabell 7mo agoThis is an article about an encryption software project getting their Microsoft account terminated. It’s not the place to spam a completely off-topic complaint about the AI use of a service completely unrelated to the project.
- egorfine 7mo agoAnd unfortunately some projects exclusively use sourceforge. Which breaks some of my CI pipelines.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7mo agoWhy would that break CI?
- egorfine 7mo agosourceforge serves files inconsistently.
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- kome 7mo agoyeah, it just works
- tvbusy 7mo agoI understand that most people want to move to other more modern tools, it's up to you. However, what baffled me is why the author's choice not to move is a problem? Did we pay them to move and they did not move as promised? Was there some crowd funding to move that was not fulfilled?
- IshKebab 7mo ago> what baffled me is why the author's choice not to move is a problem? Because Sourceforge is horrible to use and was at one point actively pushing malware? It's pretty obvious tbh.
- ErroneousBosh 7mo agoI just didn't think Sourceforge was still running. There was a mass exodus from it about 20 years ago when it became a massive ad farm that started injecting ads into people's tarballs. It was never as good as freshmeat.net even in its heyday.