Didn't you consider using another server to download your apps from? You know, SourceForge has bad reputation=adding adware or another unwanted software during installation or using misleading links... Read more here by a VLC developer: https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourceforge/
New: Supermium (Apr 11, 2024), Platform 29.4 (Apr 10, 2024)
1,000+ portable packages, 1.1 billion downloads
Please donate today
Visit the Community page
Join our forums
Subscribe to our email newsletter
Subscribe with RSS
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on LinkedIn
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Mastodon
Follow us on BlueSky
SourceForge has engaged in behavior recently which we found unacceptable. They ceased this behavior after feedback from the community, including feedback directly from me. It should be noted that SourceForge has never altered an installer or added bundleware to a project's packages. I know, I analyzed them all myself when others claimed things were altered. There was a bundleware installer placed before some mirrored projects that did not opt in that was of large concern. The entire mirroring project was shut down as a result or the community feedback except for projects like OpenOffice which use SourceForge for all their binary downloads but don't host their main project on SourceForge.
It should also be noted that we have used SourceForge for over a decade and not once has a single app been compromised or altered or had adware or bundleware added in any way. I've been assured by SourceForge upper management that bundleware on our project will not unless we were to opt-in to the Dev Share program as FileZilla and some others have.
At present, we don't have a free alternative to SourceForge (github et al do not work for projects of our nature with our array of downloads) and this project does not generate enough revenue to self-host every download. I have additional provisions ready in case the situation changes or worsens and a move is necessary, but we would have to find additional revenue sources if that happens.
Thank you for writing us about this, by the way. It's good to know that users care about our security and future.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Can you elaborate? Do github, etc. limit the number of downloads?
SourceForge is designed to be all things for an open source project: binary downloads, multiple source code repositories, forums, feature requests/bug reports, mailing lists, wiki, etc. It does all of this within the open source Allura framework (now an Apache project) which runs sourceforge.net. You can pick and choose whichever of those features you want and use them as you need.
Github is designed to allow folks to host code within git (and only git). It has binary download abilities in relation to "releases" from git that were added on as a secondary feature, but are designed to work with your git repository. This is handled within the closed source/commercial github.com website (many people mistakenly think that github is open source, it is not).
We release open source apps where we upload the binaries as installers and code as archives (zip, xz, bz2, etc) for each app. The source code is not in a repository. While github would work for our platform and tools since we'd use git and have binary releases, it's a poor fit for the hundreds of open source apps we package.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!