How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform

Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host... by veidr on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:31AM (#39875781)

That's how I remember it too, with the additions that they also did a bunch of additional shit like show early-stage surveillance ads, and sign you up for unwanted mail lists by default, and more, but all less-awful than the installation of unwanted spamware).

My dad runs his company accounting on GnuCash, and I sometimes help him set up a computer, and it is always startling that SourceForge even exists. (It's still the official download[1].)

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/

P.S. I think you meant "death knell" but it's all good, we all understood. :)

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Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host... by sdwr on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:46PM (#39877508)

Death knell is the killing blow (or harbinger of?)

Death rattle refers to a rattling noise produced in the lungs with one's dying breaths.

Both applicable, death rattle is a little bit more appropriate though, because it's an action that sourceforge took.

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Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host... by cshimmin on Saturday March 30, 2024 @03:59PM (#39878083)

Literally, a death knell is a bell rung (esp by a church) to indicate someone has died. Figuratively it's an event that signals an end to something.

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Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host... by fsckboy on Sunday March 31, 2024 @06:49PM (#39888902)

as is a death toll the ringing of a bell signifying death.

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Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host... by Jenk on Saturday March 30, 2024 @03:53PM (#39878038)

> P.S. I think you meant "death knell" but it's all good, we all understood. :)

You are correct, I garbled it with "[death] bell toll" (specifically thinking of "for whom the bell tolls.")

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