Re: OT: web-based source hosting

Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:

On 2025-02-09, Keith Thompson wrote:

Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:

On 2025-02-09, zara <johan@freecol.be> wrote:

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I am working on scripts in Common Lisp using shell inside,
here's the link to the code, it's GPL2 :
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http://sf.net/projects/lisp-scripts

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In 2025, nobody is going to download and unpack tarballs you posted to
sourceforge to look at your code.
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You might as well scratch it on the wall of your cave with a piece of
charcoal, and invite people to peruse it by the light of a torch.

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Consider putting your code on GitHub instead.

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So that it's harder to read or download without git or specific
browsers, or even without JavaScript; or has SourceForge reached that
level of unusability now too?

I personally find GitHub more usable than SourceForge.  GitHub lets me
brows the code in my web browser and/or download it as a git repository.
I don't use SourceForge much, but I've found its web interface clunky
and difficult to navigate.  I find the automatic "Your download will
start shortly" with a 5-second countdown particularly obnoxious; I'd
much rather have just a link that I can download on a system other than
the one my browser is running on.

I don't know whether GitHub's browsing functionality requires
JavaScript to be enabled, since I haven't bothered to disable
JavaScript myself.  I suppose it probably does.  And I'm a heavy
user of git, so that's not a problem for me; if a repo looks
interesting, I'm more likely to clone it than browse it online.
If you dislike JavaScript and/or git, then GitHub probably wouldn't
be a good choice for you.

I have no opinion on which you should prefer.

I mean, while I could understand SourceForge being not recommended for
some reasons (which ones?), it strikes me as unlikely that GitHub is a
good option, given how they've been progressively rendering it unusable
on the web (three years ago or so it was different in this regard), and
I guess/hope that, for the git part, there would be other alternatives
there, or there really are none?

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