How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform

Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host... by jzb on Saturday March 30, 2024 @11:31AM (#39875782)

The bundling thing happened after Sourceforge was already well in decline, 2013, which was five years after GitHub launched. Google Code shutdown was announced 2015. IIRC Sourceforge was becoming less relevant because it hadn’t introduced git support, and GitHub answered that demand. By the time it added it, it was too late.

Bundling adware with software was not the death knell for Sourceforge, it was a death rattle - though the corpse is livelier than I’d have thought ten-plus years later.

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Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host... by iforgotpassword on Saturday March 30, 2024 @12:16PM (#39876201)

Hm, it feels the adware was a bit later, or rather I should be surprised how early sourceforge fell into irrelevance in my circles. When it made the news I was pretty much just shrugging "well nobody's using that anymore anyways"

It's just one of the examples where somebody came along offering pretty much the same thing but just with a different focus (code/collab), and arguably also relevant a cleaner, fresher look.

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Re:How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code host... by jjfoooo6 on Monday April 01, 2024 @11:59AM (#39895598)

It's baffling in retrospect how Google couldn't recognize the strategic opportunity of Google Code.

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