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Alan Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> For some time (several years), I have been unhappy with the service offered
>> by
>> the Source Forge hosting for the Bacula project. Aside from being very slow
>> to the point that we have often been unable to upload releases for several
>> days, they have now gone what I would call "commercial", which means that
>> there are commercial ads plastered all over the place including all the
>> pages -- even the developer only release pages.
>
> My solution is another opensource product:
>
> Firefox.
>
> Install the following extensions:
>
> noscript (stops scripts running until you authorise the site)
> adblock plus (and the adblock filter packs)
> flashblock (stops flash animations starting until yuo allow them)
>
> Restart firefox and watch those websites fly...
>
>> I find it quite annoying to
>> have these moving, scrolling, blinking images advertising commercial software
>> such as Zmanda, GoodSync, ... all claiming to be Open Source or free.
>
> Wait till you see the microsoft adverts there...
>
>
> WRT the rest, sponsorship is an essential part of operating a "free"
> website, especially when it is as high traffic as sourceforge, but there
> comes a time when it becomes intrusive and I agree with the idea of oving
> to Luanchpad.
I agree with these suggestions (though I consider AdBlock Plus to be
enough for all of these things, without annoying me other times), but I
still think Launchpad is a nicer product (at least from a user POV).
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