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I am trying to download the latest release (1.12.4a) but I am caught in a never ending loop http://sourceforge.net/projects/wesnoth/files/.

Edit: okay, sourceforge is broken for me for any download, no matter the browser.

Let's consider that my sourceforge rant of the week.

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Well, Sourceforge is still recovering from a major fuck up in their storage system a week ago, so it's not that surprising that things aren't entirely working...

http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-infrastructure-and-s...

Wow, that site has really seen better days. I notice it's still in the uBlock Origin block list as well.

Was trying to diagnose this for KeePass last night...

Between this and the adware scandal, it's like someone slammed the door on an era.

What's the download service everyone's going to move to that won't have these problems?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/03/sourceforge_to_offer...

I wished something like distributed git for the masses or torrent distribution would replace services that are a single point a failure such as sourceforge or self-hosting.

Maybe even some kind of `Dropbox distributing' ?

Maybe Mega and other file hosting and sharing services are up to the job but most have a very suspicious kind of aura. I remember chasing the web after some rapidshare hosted android rom (they still do that btw) and it's a pain to deal with.

But that's just a technological POV, I don't know what kind of entity should/could distribute apps. FOSSHUB ?

FossHub, from a technological POV is no way different than Dropbox or any other service. FossHub relies on multiple sources to store the content and distribute this via multiple, separated locations. As for the most sharing services, I share your opinion and would like to assure you that FossHub is different. Disclosure: I am a member of FossHub team.

Most new free software projects I've seen just use GitHub's "releases" feature - you can associate an arbitrary set of binary files with a Git tag, and GH will host them for you, with a nice inline link to the commit that they were created from.

I think we (FossHub) can be the alternative for certain devs and most people were happy with the service we provided so far. Disclosure: I am a member of FossHub team.

I thought Sourceforge had been compromised by bad people and should be avoided on principle.

Sourceforge was compromised by bad people. Dice bought them.

That seems to be a problem with sourceforge. I was trying to download something else earlier today and had the same problem.

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