GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm)

Posted Jul 10, 2012 20:10 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (guest, #27559)
In reply to: GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm) by karim
Parent article: GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm)

i don't think the failure of sourceforge really says anything at all about github. sourceforge didn't have a dvcs that had become a social phenomenon. sourceforge didn't have any community features. sourceforge also addressed a developer market which is a fraction of the size of todays, and did so at a time when there wasn't clear acceptance of web tools in the workflow. in short: sourceforge was too early.

GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm)

Posted Jul 11, 2012 1:51 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] (1 responses)

That's not sufficient explanation. SourceForge exists today, now that the need is painfully clear, and still nobody uses it. (hyperbole of course: lots of people use it but nothing compared to GitHub).

GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm)

Posted Jul 11, 2012 14:18 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Perhaps it's just that SourceForge's user interface, even post-upgrade, makes me want to stick cocktail sticks into my eyes. Its mailing list archive interface in particular is unimaginably awful: I've never seen *anything* worse.