Although I completely think moving away from SourceForge is a good idea for any 
project, it’s worth noting that SourceForge was acquired in 2012 (after the 
adware thing) so their current leadership probably isn’t to blame.


16. Feb 2018 11:38 by [email protected]:


> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Christian J. Robinson > <> 
> [email protected]> >>  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The recent (and ongoing) outage of the Vim website on SourceForge shows 
>>> again that this is not a good place to host Vim.
>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>> If you have positive or negative comments about moving to >>> osdn.net>>> , 
>>> let's discuss that.
>>>
>>
>> I think this move is the right choice even without the outage. SourceForge's 
>> current owners/leadership has been engaged in behaviors that are 
>> antithetical to the original mission of the service:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies
>
> Can you actually run a custom website on > osdn.net> ? Both the Project Web 
> Servers (e.g., > http://peazip.osdn.jp/> ) and the Project Top Page/Dashboard 
> (e.g., > https://osdn.net/projects/peazip/> ) make it look like you can't.
> Vim.org is a PHP-based website, but is it actually using any server-side 
> code? If it's static HTML, then GitHub Pages is quite satisfactory.
> -- > /George V. Reilly  > [email protected]>   Twitter: @georgevreilly> 
> www.GeorgeVReilly.com>  
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