Thank you Sourceforge, for ...

[unixronin]

• Redesigning all the project pages ... yeah, this I'll grant, it does look cleaner, but a lot of information is now hidden.
• Filling up my project pages with advertising without asking me, largely for stupid crap you couldn't PAY me to advertise.  I guess now we know what drove the redesign and what that information got hidden to make room for.
• Dumping useless, NOP messages in my project forums that will serve only to make people look at the forums to see what the messages are, and then get pissed off at the waste of time and bandwidth.
• ....Stupid useless NOP messages that you PROVIDE NO WAY TO DELETE.

 

Bite me.

Sourceforge has jumped the shark.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

If your project is GPL (or maybe if it isn't, I don't remember) you might be able to move it to Savannah, the GNU project's servers....

But, yeah, sourceforge jumped the shark years ago. I had a project there once... I don't even remember what we called it. *sigh*

Bass turds.

Free services

[wambold.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, you get what you pay for. I think your best bet is to find someone to host your project because they find it valuable.

Before I joined Google, I told my friend there that I would find Gmail a lot more attractive if I could pay for it. I prefer to pay for services instead of getting stuck with advertising.

Re: Free services

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, frankly, it was only on sourceforge for visibility anyway. My main ICBM project site is still at co.ordinate.org (http://co.ordinate.org/icbm/). And truth to tell, it's not like I have a lot of users.