SourceForge Relevance

Discussions focus on SourceForge's continued existence and relevance in the era of GitHub and GitLab, with surprise at projects still using it, references to its past issues like poor UI and adware, and debates on whether it has improved.

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Sample Comments

jms703 Aug 23, 2013 View on HN

wait. sourceforge is still around? i doubt those that use it read hacker news.

richo Dec 27, 2013 View on HN

People still host things on sourceforge? Most user hostile UI ever.

p4bl0 Mar 20, 2016 View on HN

Already forgot about sourceforge?

LtWorf Sep 9, 2024 View on HN

Github won because sourceforge was ruined already.

exikyut Jun 11, 2018 View on HN

I was going to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17281866, but Arc won't let me. I don't want to throw my reply out (which I typed before the comment in question became unanswerable), so I'll quote the context here, and then follow with what I was going to comment with.>>> jimrandomh (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17

AbuAssar Apr 1, 2025 View on HN

I wonder why in the age of github and gitlab some opensource projects still use SourceForge

swombat Jan 27, 2011 View on HN

Is sourceforge still relevant in this day and age?

turbohedgehog Jul 2, 2016 View on HN

Just FYI: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...

blueflow Jun 14, 2022 View on HN

Has Github become the new Sourceforge?

tibbon Apr 4, 2013 View on HN

Why Sourceforge > Github these days? Sourceforge just feels messy in comparison