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SourceForge Introduces HTTPS Support For Project Websites (sourceforge.net)
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.
That was last year under DICE. New owners put an end to it. http://www.pcworld.com/article...
That was last year under DICE. New owners put an end to it. http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Interesting, because as we can see from the comments, the smell still lingers. That fart was not silent but it sure was deadly.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Github uses .io for project websites - my guess is SourceForge went with .io since people would be used to that for project web pages
The new-ish owners of SourceForge / Slashdot seem to be trying to find a way to rebuild the mindshare and site reputation which the former owners did their best to destroy. But doing that while simultaneously figuring out how to not hemorrhage money is a tough nut to crack on today's internet. I wish them luck - I really want both sites to succeed - but I'm also glad it's not my problem to solve.
#DeleteChrome
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .io is the country code for the British Indian Ocean Territory.
I appreciate the changes SF has made, but in January I moved my web hosting from Sourceforge to my own infrastructure. Now I have HTTPS, can make outbound HTTP calls, have more control over the backend, and the web site is 10x faster. It does not cost much, and with reverse proxies, I was able to weather several huge traffic spikes without a blip.
Speaking from the position of an IT admin - I cannot unblock Sourceforge yet. It will remain locked off to my users as long as this is the status quo - https://sourceforge.net/projec...
Yes, their installer is scanned for Malware. But then the installer downloads malware during the installation process. My users are not observant enough to be trusted to read a notice "This project uses a 3rd party installer", and certainly not seasoned enough to infer that the message means "download malware here". I've reported this project as distributing malware a few times now since Slashdot/Sourceforge's change of hands, so its continued virus-laden distribution tells me everything I need to know about how much trust I should put in the new regime.