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SourceForge was for a long time, the de facto host for open source projects. Now it may have fallen a bit compared to the likes of GitHub and BitBucket, but it still hosts more than 400000 projects, 3.7 million registered users and has more than 4,800,000 downloads a day.
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Pros
Pro SourceForge offers a lot of helpful features for open source projects
Every project hosted on SourceForge can have discussion boards, and issue tracker, a tab for screenshots and something most code hosts don't have: a Shell access. Developers can also websites for their projects for free on SourceForge, as well as a Wiki for documentation.
Pro Easy for downloading projects
SourceForge makes it easy for users to download software hosted on it. It detects the user's platform and provides them with an appropriate version. They also have an extensive mirror network all over the world, which helps speed up downloads.
Cons
Con Slow UI web interface
A simple text file or a mail list takes too long to load because of too much eye candy or CSS/html5 artifacts.
Con Cluttered UI
Compared to other hosts, Sourceforge's UI feels messy and cluttered. Ads take up large portions of screen real estate, and feature creep has resulted in buttons and links everywhere that can sometimes make it difficult to find what you're looking for.
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Con Untrusted by many people for serving malware
SourceForge was discovered to have been hijacking projects and bundling unrelated, third-party software and malware, causing many people to lose their trust of the website. SourceForge is even blacklisted by default in some popular ad blockers for this reason.
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