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This makes me so mad and sad at the same time. For years, it would bring me immense pleasure to just browse projects on sourceforge to see what the world was u
by god_bless_texas 11y ago
This makes me so mad and sad at the same time. For years, it would bring me immense pleasure to just browse projects on sourceforge to see what the world was up to. Now this is just another case of corporations ruining a good thing. I'm glad there are links to Filezilla and Gimp - two products I use frequently.
- dare_you 11y agoI was just remembering when sourceforge first appeared and how awesome it was. I slowly started browsing projects on there instead of freshmeat. It is just sad, and frankly a little weird.
- whoisthemachine 11y agoI kind of view it as a consequence of the market falling out from under their feet - it's cheap enough to host your own files now, and with package managers (even on Windows!) the power users that used to be the target audience of Source Forge have been vanishing.
- toyg 11y agoIMHO it's more a function of their inability to compete with Github and Bitbucket. They were slow to react to the rise of distributed VCS, failed to exploit their social network features, and probably had already accumulated too much technical debt to effectively change course by the time overall trends became clear. Once developers shifted, power users had to follow suit.