This is a bad association even for people that recognize it. Presumably there were good years but most will probably remember the ugly endgame with awkward UX and weird ads masquerading as fake download links.
Yup! That clears it up. It’s the site that serves lots of ads and binary packages of some old software. At least as of the last time I looked some years ago.
Ok then, not sure I would want more things like that today to self host, but to each their own.
This is a bad association even for people that recognize it. Presumably there were good years but most will probably remember the ugly endgame with awkward UX and weird ads masquerading as fake download links.
This is such an interesting thing of generational difference, since I remember sourceforge fondly before the crazy era of so many ads.
I don't remember any era of sourceforge where it had good UI.
I also don't remember anyone ever calling it a "software forge".
Now that I think of it, Sourceforge is perhaps the first good example of enshittification in this domain that I can think of.
The thing about enshittification is, first you need to eyeballs and brand, before you can sully it. Sourceforge was great for a while.
> Ever heard of Sourceforge?
Yup! That clears it up. It’s the site that serves lots of ads and binary packages of some old software. At least as of the last time I looked some years ago.
Ok then, not sure I would want more things like that today to self host, but to each their own.