The decline started years ago with the "Wait five seconds and we will redirect you to the real download page" filled with fake download buttons describing "Tire

The decline started years ago with the "Wait five seconds and we will redirect you to the real download page" filled with fake download buttons describing "Tired of waiting? DOWNLOAD" et cetera. They never improved their core product (repositories are still hell to navigate through) and only added interface elements and tweaked the UI to get you to.click on ads. A shame, because before that Sourceforge was the go-to place to download homebrew, free alternatives to proprietary software. Github is great, but as it looks right now they fail to pull in those big legacy software packages. Their main audience seems to be web dev.