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What’s that sucking noise? It’s Sourceforge.net

Is it me or does Sourceforge just suck lately?

In the last 3 months it seems that half the time I’ve wanted to download something hosted by them I cannot connect. I’ve tried from home, both my web servers, and work and the connection times out from all locations.

[update:]

Now that I’ve complained about it things have improved.  The preferred mirror options seems to be working correctly and downloads are once again fast.

3 Comments

  1. I haven’t had much problem with that, but I am very irritated with their ‘mirror selection’ page. How hard would it be to just randomly select a mirror, or better yet, track down the physical location of my IP address and link me to the closest mirror based on that?

    Posted on 08-May-06 at 6:03 pm | Permalink
  2. That’s geting damned annoying too.

    They used to let you pick a default site and would only present you a list of others when that file wasn’t on your default mirror. Unfortunatetly I think they broke that functionality just to show more ads.

    Maybe it’s time someone come up with a new open source project manager that has a cheap subscription model. I’d pay $5 per month for some ad free access to files. Maybe even kick a small portion of that money back to the projects I’m downloading.

    Posted on 08-May-06 at 6:11 pm | Permalink
  3. kookimebux

    Hello. And Bye. :)

    Posted on 01-Feb-09 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

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