My overriding memories of SourceForge was that it was slow, buggy, and hard to use.
There were mailing lists, issue-trackers, forums, and similar things but each page load took like five seconds and the site was ugly.
I switched from using it after it got a reputation for wrapping downloads with malware, or with "toolbar helpers", etc. I'm sure the projects had to sign up to it at the start, but it always felt abusive.
Back then there was some discovery options, but of course I browsed freshmeat[.net] back in the day to see announcements of new releases, or new projects.
Github won for being useful and awesome, but also SourceForge lost because of self-sabotage, stagnation, and neglect.
(Wasn't there a buyout at some point? With Slashdot/others being bought by Dice? I know SF.net has changed hands a couple of times, but that was the first one I remember in 2012 or so? That probably didn't help)
There were mailing lists, issue-trackers, forums, and similar things but each page load took like five seconds and the site was ugly.
I switched from using it after it got a reputation for wrapping downloads with malware, or with "toolbar helpers", etc. I'm sure the projects had to sign up to it at the start, but it always felt abusive.
Back then there was some discovery options, but of course I browsed freshmeat[.net] back in the day to see announcements of new releases, or new projects.
Github won for being useful and awesome, but also SourceForge lost because of self-sabotage, stagnation, and neglect.
(Wasn't there a buyout at some point? With Slashdot/others being bought by Dice? I know SF.net has changed hands a couple of times, but that was the first one I remember in 2012 or so? That probably didn't help)