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SourceForge Introduces HTTPS Support For Project Websites (sourceforge.net)

Posted by msmash on from the ramp-up dept.

SourceForge announced on Wednesday that it is introducing HTTPS for all project websites on its platform. Once a project has been moved to HTTPS, old domain will automatically redirect to their new counterparts, resulting in no loss of traffic or inconvenience. From a blog post on the site: With a single click, projects can opt-in to switch their web hosting from http://name.sourceforge.net to https://name.sourceforge.io. Project admins can find this option in the Admin page, under "HTTPS", naturally.There's also a guide to assist developers with the transition. SourceForge launched HTTPS support for SourceForge.net back in February, but this rolls out HTTPS support to individual project websites hosted on SourceForge. There's also a Site News section on the website now where you can read about all SourceForge changes and improvements over the past year since SourceForge was acquired by BIZX, such as eliminating the DevShare program and scanning all projects for malware.

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  1. Why? by hsmith · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Source forge is incredibly annoying to use, and git/github/bitbucket have all pretty much become the ubiquitous tools for hosting projects on. If I find an OS project on SoureForge, I assume it is long since abandoned.