Projects flee SourceForge

runawayNotepad++ is the latest popular app to leave increasingly-unpleasant code repository SourceForge.

If SourceForge were a person and I were the New York Times, I’d make certain I had an obituary on file right about now. It’s obvious that the once essential code repository for open source projects is terminally ill, although it’s just as obvious that Dice Holdings, which took over ownership of the site nearly three years ago, has no plans of letting SourceForge go gently into the good night, so we’ll probably see more kicking and noise-making until the lights are inevitably extinguished.

Sometimes there's cause to be sad when a longtime fixture of the last internet withers, but not this time. Forgo rescue.