Trac (at least the way most projects have it set up) is pretty new user unfriendly.

This is ok if your project is targetted at users who are developers, but if you want fresh blood and the less (initially) motivated to get drawn in a priority should be:

* A concise explanation of what the project is.

* A nice forum. Maybe even with no registration until you get established.

* Easy bug reporting. (Maybe not a bug tracker - a forum for bugs can be really effective provided the dev's or some support people read it.)

See, I was going to mention SF. It seems to be becoming less and less popular these days. Why is that? Do you think it's become too big for its boots?

My impression is that it's painfully slow and the UI is horrid. Six clicks to download a package and it's not very clear even then.

As a user of SF, I hate it. It's very unfriendly requiring more links than reasonable to get to the actual download. Also the ads are just horrible.

Slow. Advertisements. Lame mailing list archives. Lame issue tracker. Lame forums. Lame/oldskool SVN browser. Advertisements. Lot's of downtime.

On the topic of hosting, has anyone been able to get into [Codebase](http://codebasehq.com/) beta? It looks very cool on the surface but I couldn't find any hosted projects to play around with. I submitted our info a while back, heard nothing so far.

Thanks for the tips, was looking at github.