Used to be, when I was looking for an open source project I’d just open up sourceforge and search there. All the projects that were real projects could be found on Sourceforge.

While the code quality on Sourceforge hasn’t gone down… the quality of the site itself has… I don’t know… started to suck.

The change to Orange from Blue wasn’t too bad, as I’m a fan of Orange myself… but the interface just seems to have lost the no-nonsense-get-to-the-code quality that I found so easy to love. The ads have slowly grown bigger and bigger, shoving actual useful information to the side.

I guess this is because there’s so many quality scripts you can use for OS Development on your own server without requiring a special development platform for managing and distributing source.

And besides… if you want a simple OS hosting for free… there’s Google Code… it’s everything Sourceforge used to be without the orange or the huge ads and crappy default websites.

*&$# you, Google! You’ve done it again!