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fraggle said:
That's hilarious. They introduced these a few years ago, and I remember thinking at the time that it was a great idea that they were introducing better replacements for the frankly rather crufty Sourceforge home-rolled apps. Now they're dumping them.

To be fair they never seemed very well integrated with the rest of the site, so they never seemed like a very attractive option to me. Part of the problem is that it seems like they just set up a whole bunch of random things without any real thought put into it, and they have duplicates (three bugtrackers, two wikis, etc.).

If they'd carefully chosen a few apps, tightly integrated them all together *and* moved everyone off the crufty old system onto the apps, the idea would have worked a lot better. Of course, that's kind of what GitHub does, which has been running rings round Sourceforge from the day it started.

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