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There's really no reason to use SourceForge anymore. GitHub can do almost everything SourceForge can do, aside from app reviews I guess. GitHub also doesn't make you feel like you're in 2004.

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I don't know, GitHub isn't quite as easy to navigate as a layman if you're just looking for a synopsis and downloads.

There's no big "Download" button but you can easily add one yourself.

There should be one.

That's a very important point if you're distributing your software to non-technical users, but a download button in either the README.md should do the job. You could also use a GitHub site and host a simple download site for your repo.

It seems to me that if a project on GitHub is interested in making it easy for lay-people to download, then a little dose of

   https://pages.github.com/

should do the trick? (Personally I found SF's interface confusing and incredibly "busy" -- I don't think lay-people would fare much better, but I could be wrong.)

Don't diss 2004. SourceForge looked dated even back then.

I don't think GitHub hosts regular binary downloads like this, it's just for source mainly.

They do. I don't think they did at first. I think that is a major reason why you see a lot of code hosted on GitHub and the binaries hosted elsewhere.

github doesn't host mailing lists

some people want that 2004 feel. Also some people don't like github, __even the creator of git doesn't like github__

Linus's problems with GitHub are mostly with how it handles pull requests, IIRC.

As well as commit messages, he said it's fine as a mirror

Indeed, but how is any of this relevant to the OP?

> __even the creator of git doesn't like github__

That's like saying "even the creator of baked beans doesn't like Tesco". So what?

If the creator of a software critiques your SaaS that uses his software maybe you should pay more attention to it? I am sure Linus knows git a lot better than most of us.

But does he know website development better than most of us?

he doesn't complain about the website design he is complaining about the functionality. In fact he's stated in interviews he doesn't wish to ponder in web development.

I am not surprised someone who's career has been writing the lowest of low-level software. kernels and device drivers, isn't interested the total opposite end of the spectrum, web development.

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