| ▲ | echelon 3 days ago | |
> sourceforge.io Blast from the past. The 1990's and 2000's were a different time. Does anybody know how many active projects are still left there? And who wound up owning them after Slashdot? | ||
| ▲ | eadmund 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Does anybody know how many active projects are still left there? https://sourceforge.net/directory/ shows hundreds of thousands, but I can’t see a good way to filter out inactive projects. > And who wound up owning them after Slashdot? https://sourceforge.net/about/leadership appears to indicate that it’s still associated with Slashdot Media. I remember when they were bought that the new owner spent quite a bit of time regaining the trust of the software community. No idea how healthy the company’s business or operations are now, but it’s impressive that they’ve survived this long. I don’t really know what their USP is anymore. It might be fun to start a new project there just to see what it’s like now. | ||
| ▲ | duskwuff 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
There's a fair number of active projects on SourceForge - a couple of names you might recognize are DOSBox, GParted, and qBittorrent - but what pretty much all of them have in common is that they're old. To a first approximation, no one's launching new projects on SourceForge; projects use it out of inertia, not because it's good. | ||
| ▲ | ValdikSS a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Sourceforge is still used as a storage for ISOs, firmware builds, and other large binary "artifacts", because it allows large files, unlike GitHub. | ||
| ▲ | ayaros 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I must admit I never liked their UI. It still kind of has that 2000s shareware download site feel to it. It always felt too cluttered and bloated and in-the-way of the content. Also it has that stupid download countdown timer. I really hate when sites do that... can't they get rid of it? :( | ||