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I don't even know what it exactly wants to be (media.piefed.social)
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[–] kehet@sopuli.xyz 80 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All I remember is that they used to automatically inject ads and spyware to downloadable files. No idea if they still do that, most likely yes

[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It was amazing for years and then they ran out of money. When it completely crashed and went full ad insanity and crashed again, someone else took over with the intent of making it great again. That may be a poor choice of words or it may not.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago

I also remember when it got taken over by new management with the promise of improving things. That was a couple of years ago IIRC, and it's still a septic tank of advertisements and download countdowns.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I remember when sourceforge was a good place to get windows software, as I recall it took over from Tucows.

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Tucows?! Now that's deeplore from the before times.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Yea, i remember ending up on there more often when I still got my windows machine, but even then it had that weird aura to it. Just downloading it made me feel like it is not the intended way.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club -1 points 1 week ago

The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software.

Winsocks:

[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm always amazed when I find a project that is still using Sourceforge. I always assume that it is completely unused by any active projects anymore. MX Linux was the most recent one I came across. Their ISOs are on sourceforge, although they use Github for their main repo.

And...apparently Sourceforge was bough by Slashdot in 2019?! Wow. Two early-2000s heavyweights right there.

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They still make an acceptable FTP server for backing up your huge tarballs.

Github is more involved, you need to create a release and then attach files to it. With sf.net you jist do a FTP upload.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Sourceforge or Github for backup? Are you silly?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

OpenMediaVaukt also uploads there

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

First CVS I pushed code to.

[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Maybe I'm tired, or maybe I'm traumatised from sourceforge, but my god did this give me some terrifying laughter