Ian Lewis' Blog

While I love sourceforge and I really don't have room to complain because for it's free services and support, CVS and SVN server, website hosting, bug and feature tracker, and file release system, I can't help but feel that it comes off like an unfinished basement.

The homepage and project pages are covered with advertisements, and where there aren't advertisements it feels like it's missing something. It seems to have this concept of portal like "pieces" of content, "Project News", "Statistics", "Software Categories", which come off like iGoogle but you can't change it, and the content areas aren't arranged in any coherent fashion. Website content is mixed with advertisements without giving many visual queues as to which is which.

The javascripts sometimes goes into infinite loops on me (I block some of the scripts that are run on the page. Maybe that's the culprit), and the number of ads and scripts slows the site down. Now with all the downtime and bugs in the SVN and CVS services, it's no wonder many successful projects ditch sourceforge for their own solutions.