@blakeyrat said:
What are?
I ask out of genuine curiosity. I already know that I'm incapable of thinking like the typical open source developer, but any insight that would make it easier to communicate with people who honestly believe SourgeForge *isn't* a piece of shit would be appreciated.
0. Does it work they way it always has since the 90s?
1. Do the insert, sysrq, scroll lock, and pause keys work?
2. Can it properly be rendered as plaintext on Unix for processing?
3. Does it scare away the n00bs who urgently need teh codes?
3.1 Does it annoy blakeyrat?
But it's not really THAT terrible, is it? It's just an extra hop to resolve the mirror. Lots of download sites do that. And yes, it's probably mostly to get some advertiser money, ask for a donation, and show off their logo. If it was a direct download, they would get none of that but still pay for all the bandwidth. It's a pretty fair tradeoff, in my opinion.
And plenty of SourceForge sites have screenshots, although I don't know too much about their bug tracker.