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Re:Give up GitHub: The time has come by bink on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:42PM (#31935891)
It's been years, but as I remember it SourceForge's primary downfall was the bundling of malware with binaries. That's why people I know stopped using it completely rather than because it was run on a proprietary platform.
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Re:Give up GitHub: The time has come by bombcar on Thursday June 30, 2022 @06:13PM (#31939345)
Sourceforge, for all of it's name, wasn't really a place to get source - I'd say some immensely large percentage of users used it to download binaries for Windows.

And then it killed itself in its confusion.

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Re:Give up GitHub: The time has come by duxup on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:51PM (#31936018)
Yup that's how I remember it. Suddenly I didn't touch anything on SourceForge.
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Re:Give up GitHub: The time has come by shrimpx on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:36PM (#31936627)
Also the UI sucked. I never looked forward to using it.
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Re:Give up GitHub: The time has come by flurdy on Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:54PM (#31939162)
Yes the UI turned into a car crash. So many ads, and restrictions.

Also they kept changing the services they offered to projects so often I gave up on that as well.

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Re:Give up GitHub: The time has come by account42 on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:00AM (#31945202)
OTOH uploading was a lot nicer than GitHub since you could just rsync over SSH.
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