What's that sucking noise? It's Sourceforge.net
May 4, 2006 – 11:52 pm
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.
2 Responses to “What's that sucking noise? It's Sourceforge.net”
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?
By bob on May 8, 2006
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.
By Anton on May 8, 2006