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WOW!! Anybody been to Sourceforge?

Post by trukfixer »

Awesome. They must have just taken their new site layout and design live just as I was browsing through projects :) A nice surprise.. Pretty cool layout. much nicer than the old one..

Although I *do* kind of miss the plain old black-n-white :)

http://www.sourceforge.net/
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Wow its going to take some getting used to....
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Yes that is an improvement :D

I'm glad it's not *drastically* different.... it feels the same to me but just looks a lot better.
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Post by Roja »

Slow.

Non-compliant HTML - no wait, worse, non-compliant XHTML!

Non-compliant CSS

Admittedly, the color scheme is nice.
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they went from steel-gray to steel-blue-gray.

nice to see they spent some time though enhancing it. The old sucked (IMHO).
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Am I the only one who finds SourceForge.net loads unbearably slowly?
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Post by nielsene »

actually the more I look around the less I like it; they've moved more "chrome" into the main displays. the "information content area" feels shrunk, even though they gained width by the absense of the side menu bar.

I think I really dislike the movement of those bottom four elements into the main paine.
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Post by m3mn0n »

Nathaniel wrote:Am I the only one who finds SourceForge.net loads unbearably slowly?
I was about to post the same thing.

Nice new look, but it shouldn't come at the cost of decent page loading times.
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Post by blacksnday »

SF has always been unbearable slow for me.
Ever since i first starting going there 2 years ago.


I actually hate going to SF for any purpose
because it makes my broadband cry and feel bad :P
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According to Web Page Speed Report by WebSiteOptimization.com, the SF index page takes 25 seconds to load on a 56K modem... 8 on ISDN (128K).

*shudders*
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Nathaniel wrote:According to Web Page Speed Report by WebSiteOptimization.com, the SF index page takes 25 seconds to load on a 56K modem... 8 on ISDN (128K).

*shudders*
I could pee in the time it takes for the site to load for me, but it's still a good resource of open source stuff. I do think it's a might bit easier on the eyes than the old site though, that layout just sucked.
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Moocat wrote:
Nathaniel wrote:According to Web Page Speed Report by WebSiteOptimization.com, the SF index page takes 25 seconds to load on a 56K modem... 8 on ISDN (128K).

*shudders*
I could pee in the time it takes for the site to load for me, but it's still a good resource of open source stuff. I do think it's a might bit easier on the eyes than the old site though, that layout just sucked.
it is indeed awesome, and I would be more active there with my current
project if it weren't for the speed issue.
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We're Sorry.
The SourceForge.net Website is currently down for maintenance.
We will be back shortly
gahhh...
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Post by Roja »

Burrito wrote:they went from steel-gray to steel-blue-gray.

nice to see they spent some time though enhancing it. The old sucked (IMHO).
No, they went from *urine yellow* on steel gray to *dark crimson* on steel-blue-gray.

An improvement, at least in my eyes.

But the page time.. it has *never* been this slow.
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Nathaniel wrote:Am I the only one who finds SourceForge.net loads unbearably slowly?
That's a normal situation there anymore. Though their switch from MySql 3 to MySql 4 for their project websites was a definate improvement for anyone using sourceforge to host their home pages.

I keep hoping they will eventually increase their performance. It is really a pain at times to manage your projects because of the speed. One of the other slowdowns are the large number of ad servers each page connects.
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