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by philbo 4818 days ago
Preferring sourceforge over github seems like an unusual choice, I didn't realise anyone still used it. It's a git repo too, I wonder why they did that?
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I really don't understand the notion that SourceForge is dead and no one uses it anymore.

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/npppluginmgr/
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/fceultra/ (Shameless plug) 
Just to name a few. As a project admin of fceultra I cannot say that I'm 100% pleased with the UI of the bugtracker and the sf does have its quirks, but sourceforge has had a much better track record than github in respect to uptime. My question to you is "Why not?"
yea but how old are those projects? I recognise some of those from the 90s

If you were starting new today you wouldnt choose it. It is a clusterfuck. How the owners can't see the writing on the wall and change is beyond me.

For all I know maybe they are

Tbh, I was speaking from a position of ignorance. The last time I used sourceforge properly must have been circa 2006/7 and it was an abomination then - clearly that is not the case now.

It definitely felt cleaner from a UI perspective today (albeit not github-clean) and the sluggish document load times that I remember were also not in evidence.

The open-source ecosystem is definitely richer for every hosting solution that exists, sf included, so if my comment seemed sneery I apologise. It just surprised me at the time is all.

I reckon they just wanted to publish a tarball and Github is really bad at handling those.
Well, I don't think they'll accept any pull request, I think hosting these files on sourceforge won't make any difference.