SourceForge goes TITSUP thanks to storage fault Popular source code repository SourceForge is experiencing a Total Inability To Support Usual Performance (TITSUP) incident and appears to be attempting to recover big slabs of the site. Reader David H says he tried to visit the site and received a message that the site is in “disaster recovery mode". The Register's visits to …
SC has been down more often in the last 6 months than the previous 6 years. This time even their mailing lists are down.
They are bleeding projects as people get fed up with the outages. The one I work on (Yoshimi) is now mirrored on github, and if this continues we may make it our default repository.
Dice have no idea how to handle what they've bought.
SF is dead now, in all but name. They tried to bundle the code in adware, trick you into false downloads, and all sorts. It doesn't matter the scope or limits they put on that, you can't do that on an open-source download site.
Slashdot has been on the decline since they took over. The code is still stagnant and doesn't support basics like a pound sign (how hard is it? £ ffs...), but all they've added is irrelevant and somewhat demeaning ads - EVEN IF you were a former subscriber and still have the "Disable Advertising" button. They went through many months of just not knowing what to post and facing user backlash from adverts posing as serious article.
Dice have basically killed two of the most famous IT sites by trying to turn them into shovelware/advertising sites.
I know SF is an utter utter utter piece of crap that peddles crap ware etc. etc. but does it also have to be down all the time. I mean they could peddle the adware AND have decent up time.
I have to use it after all. Hopefully after this SNAFU I'll have to use it less often.
and still no news.
My main concern now is the users list, which is also inaccessible this time. Unfortunately github doesn't run a list server as far as I know.
It's not a huge list for our project but it's not tiny either, so the idea of sending bulk BCCs to keep people up-to-date is not exactly appealing.
Yes, I pretty much came to that conclusion but when you leave 'home' it's a good idea to also leave a forwarding address. We've done that for the project itself, but where can we point the users to for an equivalent for the mailing list? I don't have the facilities for setting up one myself - besides it shouldn't be dependent on just one geriatric.
It's all a bit of a mess!
Google Groups is a free alternative that some places have gone with.
I personally don't like their web interface, but it's possible to use them like a standard mailing list too (eg subscribe to get emails), not going through the web interface. ElasticSearch moved to them a while ago, and apparently they're doing well there.
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