I 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?

I 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.

> 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.

Might be it even not using all your code to train AI. Or at least not asking your explicit permission to do it.

Not every conversation has to be a conversation about AI.

Not every conversation but as long as GitHub is the most popular code hosting platform it's very much relevant to that discussion.

This 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.

It 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.

As I've said elsewhere, freshmeat.net was better :-)

For 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!

Yeah, 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.

And unfortunately some projects exclusively use sourceforge. Which breaks some of my CI pipelines.

Why would that break CI?

sourceforge serves files inconsistently.

yeah, it just works