Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge projects to GitHub

Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by nitrogen on Saturday June 27, 2015 @09:13PM (#9792058)

I thought this had been resolved years ago, but aesthetics aren't about eye candy. They are about productive and pleasant experiences.

As a tangible example, imagine yourself working in a dank, contaminated 6' diameter sewer pipe with spotty pirated electricity, vs. a well-designed, large interior space with plenty of natural light and reliable utilities. Regardless of how irrelevant appearances are to you, I'd wager you'd get more work done in the second environment than in the first.

To the point of Savannah vs. SF, I'm inclined to agree. I have projects from the early 2000s still on SF and I need to move them off.

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Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by dbbolton on Sunday June 28, 2015 @03:15AM (#9792735)

That's a terrible example and it doesn't address my point at all.

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Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by scrollaway on Sunday June 28, 2015 @10:07AM (#9793496)

It does actually. UX, aesthetics, all of it is important and stuffing your head in the sand saying "Hey, I don't care about aesthetics, I just use the command line" is a very irresponsive attitude.

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Re:Show HN: Effort to clone unmaintained SourceForge project... by dbbolton on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @05:52PM (#9808655)

That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that Savannah's website being ugly is not a reason to say "it's no better than SF", because it's still miles better.

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