I agree with every point.

I can probably set up mailman or something on my email server. And if no-one else offers, I can slap the website up on my web server.

As in a new new website?

I also noticed the allegro5.org domain name was in use (somewhere, earlier). Is that you? What's the intended purpose/relationship between the each of the domain names?

I looks like SF is trying to reduce expenses. The relatively popular audio editor Audacity's home page has been down for weeks now, while TortoiseSVN's is still up. If it was only those two projects, I'd guess the difference is caused by SF wanting to draw in young future professional programmers. If that's the case, Allegro is probably not even a blip on the radar compared to TortoiseSVN

SF jumped the shark years ago. It's just been doing more jumping.

It just wasn't really worth the effort to switch away before.

TortoiseSVN is obsolete since SVN is obsolete. Certainly this not a popularity contest. It's probably just an unprofessional downsizing and/or conscious suicide attempt. SourceForge has always been a terrible host. Most people are just embarrassingly lazy and careless.

It got a little too popular and they were struggling. things were still pretty good, but then they got bought out iirc. THEN it went to shit.

What are you talking about? He wasn't even a US citizen back then

Hey, it should be noted that Github is full of social-justice warriors now. So if the documentation contains anything they can construe as offensive, they may take it down.

WebMConverter has just been taken down for having the word "retard" in the description.

https://archive.is/XiTS9

Here, Github takes down a completely satirical programming language as well as all forks.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/14/1618239/github-takes-down-satirical-c-plus-equality-language?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Here people argue for banning contributors whose political beliefs on personal twitter accounts aren't politically correct. (This appears to be a common tactic... sifting through people's social media to find things to be outraged by.) Also, if you want to have an insane amount of laughter, definitely read a few pages of this discussion. It makes our religious wars on Allegro look like polite conversation.

https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941

Here they are removing an amazing rug of "United Meritocracy of Github" because social justice warriors said that hiring based on merit is unfair to people who have less than ideal upbringings. That's right. Hiring based on skill is unfair to people who suck at their job.

http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug

I'm all for git, but if you choose github, make sure you understand the feel-good fluffy atmosphere you're subscribing to. Because apparently even your contributors personal lives can subject the project to lynch mobbing.

It's unfortunately not just Github. Looks like nowadays fundamentalism has become wide spread on all sides of the political spectrum. And the group you're talking about (because I don't know if you can even call them "feminists") is on the move. They're attacking gaming, FLOSS development, atheism, movies, etc, etc. Companies like Github or Atlassian are under tons of pressure from them, and will probably keep on caving in until a strong enough countermovement arises. We're not safe anywhere, but that's life for you.

Back on topic, Jekyll seems like a cool solution. So let's use that for now. I wish I had time to contribute.

Edit: Siegelord and I must be in telepathy, he said just what I meant, but in a shorter way.

GitHub is not the enemy in that debate per se. As a for profit company they're somewhat at the mercy of the population. They can always choose not to bow to the whims of SJWs, but if that means their business will fail because a significant population will stop doing business with them then they have little choice. They're a victim of people siding with the SJWs instead of using their brains and standing up to the harassment and up for free thinking, etc. Freedom in speech, beliefs, and thinking means that people must be free to form bad ideas as well as good ones. Attempting to harm people for their ideas is wrong, even if their ideas are bad. They should only be judged for their actions, and judgements should be proportional to the actual real harm of those actions (i.e., offending people doesn't hurt them, and if the actions of one indirectly provoke others to do real harm that should not be held against the one whose actions themselves did no harm). We really just need people to stand up to the SJWs. Stop trying to be such a white knight for the dark forces and think about who YOUR actions may hurt. If we all did this then such anti-freedom campaigns would be entirely ineffective and laughable instead of being tragic for the individuals targeted.

In the past, George Takei (and his partner Brad Takei even more so) has been a major source of the types of materials that cause people to at and think this way. The two of them have represented a prominent voice of social activism.

But I've noticed a slow change of tenor on George's feed, and this post recently appeared on George Takei's Facebook feed few days ago. I take it as a sign that tides are changing, and people are starting to wake up the reality that these tactics can be harmful and lead to abusive results.

Personally, I want to know how it all started and what caused this trend.