Not every conversation has to be a conversation about AI.
replyNot every conversation but as long as GitHub is the most popular code hosting platform it's very much relevant to that discussion.
replyThis is an article about an encryption software project getting their Microsoft account terminated. It’s not the place to spam a completely off-topic complaint about the AI use of a service completely unrelated to the project.
replysourceforge was always very scummy, I think they would definitely use the code for that if they could
replyIt wasn’t always scummy… but there was a definite shift after they got bought. It’s kept getting worse since then.
replyThen again, this was something like 20 years ago. Back then, Sourceforge was something closer to GitHub today. It was the de facto public source repository. You could even get an on-premise version, IIRC.
Actually, this is sounding a lot like GitHub these days… not sure what that means.
As I've said elsewhere, freshmeat.net was better :-)
replyFor project discovery, definitely -- but not as a source code repository.
replyWow, we're dating ourselves on this, but I remember when it was a big deal that SF.net added SVN support. They apparently didn't turn off CVS until 2017!
Yeah, I remember introducing a web dev company to SVN in about oh maybe 2006. Prior to that their "version control" was a webroot full of shit like "index.php", "index.php.old", "index.php.broken", "index.ryan.donottouch.php", "indexTUESDAY.php" and so on.
replyYeah no, guys, that's not what I meant. Let me just show you this real quick...
I wonder if enough of freshmeat still exists on the Wayback machine to make a clone, maybe a skin for forgejo?
Simpler times, simpler everything.