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> and an old file-sharing software called eMule.

Dangit, the fact that you had to explain it like that makes me feel old. There was a time when that software was found on everyone's PC and held the top spot on sourceforge's most downloaded list.

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Maybe you can tell me, since I only noticed around 2007-2008.

Did Sourceforge always suck balls?

It was never a great user experience but as the dotcom boom died out and the money went away, they got worse and worse as they got sold a few times.

Sourceforge used to be a primary location for getting software.

It did suck balls, but we were grateful to have it in a time where it was possibly the best option.

Imo it wasn't that bad, but maybe that was just because code-centric sites like github didn't exist yet. It tried to provide you with a simple landing page for your open source project that can offer you a download button, centered around releasing compiled, versioned software. Their offering of a VCS (svn and CVS IIRC) was more of an added bonus. But once github was there you started wondering how sourceforge ever seemed good.

eMule is doing fine and well tho

maybe we should make more p2p kademilia software to combat the social media giants

Soulseek is doing even better.

I downloaded episodes of South Park using eMule over dial up internet.

> Sourceforge

That's another trip down memory lane...

For the real trip see this: https://webarchive.di.uminho.pt/web.archive.org/web/20090203...

I’m not sure what the first part of that URL does, but I didn’t click on it because it’s suspicious to prepend something to an Internet Archive link. I don’t recognize that domain but perhaps you can explain what it is and what it does?

Here’s the bare archive on IA:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090203182724/http:/freshmeat.n...

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