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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: OT: web-based source hosting (was: Re: lisp scripts)
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 11:44:59 +0000
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On 2025-02-09, Keith Thompson wrote:

> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
>> On 2025-02-09, zara <johan@freecol.be> wrote:
> [...]
>>> I am working on scripts in Common Lisp using shell inside,
>>> here's the link to the code, it's GPL2 :
>>>
>>> http://sf.net/projects/lisp-scripts
>>
>> In 2025, nobody is going to download and unpack tarballs you posted to
>> sourceforge to look at your code.
>>
>> You might as well scratch it on the wall of your cave with a piece of
>> charcoal, and invite people to peruse it by the light of a torch.
>
> Consider putting your code on GitHub instead.

So that it's harder to read or download without git or specific
browsers, or even without JavaScript; or has SourceForge reached that
level of unusability now too?

I mean, while I could understand SourceForge being not recommended for
some reasons (which ones?), it strikes me as unlikely that GitHub is a
good option, given how they've been progressively rendering it unusable
on the web (three years ago or so it was different in this regard), and
I guess/hope that, for the git part, there would be other alternatives
there, or there really are none?

-- 
Nuno Silva