How can SourceForge think it’s acceptable to have such a slow and unreliable site? Everything, even mailing list posts, is stuffed full of adverts, and things like mailman have been ruined. Mail archives are just hideous and unusable, whereas mailman default is nice and fast. The forums don’t remind me of any other internet forums I have seen and as a result are really very hard to use.
Two good things I can think of though: the project websites feel fairly nippy, and viewing repositories is left to stock ViewVC, which is very fast and usable. However, the cons far outweigh the pros. I guess that’s why projects don’t consider SourceForge these days.
May 17th, 2007 at 5:45 am
The trick with SF.net is to use AdBlock Plus with firefox, and make sure you’ve got pipelining turned on.