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Easy litmus test.

Can I go to a project and immediately find a direct download link that I can paste into my terminal (for fetch or wget or whatever) ?

Or is it still user-hostile, requiring multiple clicks (pageviews) to get to a "download link" that gives me some 200 character long, ephemeral-link-monstrosity that assumes (wrongly) that I want to download their linux source tarball to my GOD DAMNED LOCAL MACINTOSH.

I'm not even going to bother to look.

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You know, I went to look at a new project on sourceforge, thinking I'd quickly prove you wrong. (I don't know why I still have any faith in sourceforge.)

Guess what happened? I clicked on TWO SEPARATE ADS with a download now image in them.

I captured it because I assume the ads change, but wow, terrible: https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/78c81dc2-0a90-4e0a-8676...

I eventually found the files link, and then clicked a download. And was taken to download page where I had to wait for my download to start, with some more ads.

Yeah, screw that.

That screenshot is all I needed to see.

Spoilers -- it is still plastered with ugly as sin ads, each one competing with the others in an arms race for your attention by plastering important looking 'buttons' (really just part of the ad's graphic) for you to click, making it difficult to figure out how to actually navigate the site.

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