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Jan
19
2016
sourceforge & subscriptions
Posted by ebal at 08:49:54 in blog, planet_ellak, planet_Sysadmin

I am not trying to resolv this issue, I have lost any faith on sourceforge a long time ago.

Although, it is sad. Once, if you wanted to download free software for your linux machine, SF was the place to be.

Nowadays the site is awful. You cant even browse the site if you dont use an ad-blocker.

It is chaotic with all these features and extremely painful if you actually try to do something, even if it is the simplest thing like changing your email address.

This post is just a personal rant about SF subscriptions and nothing more.

I have changed my email address on sourceforge for about a year now. Still I am getting subscription notifies from projects to my previous (deprecated) mail address:

sf_sub_02.jpg

…. so …. yes …

by clicking on the “Manage your subscriptions” link on the bottom of the notify email:
seems that I dont have any project subscriptions !

sf_sub_01.jpg

And that’s not even the big issue here, cause I do want to get notifies whenever SystemRescueCD do updates.

The big issue, for me at least, is when I tried to subscribe on SystemRescueCD (thinking that at least now the notifies will come to my new email address):

sf_sub_03.jpg

If you missed it, the problem is with this quote below:

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sourceforge simple dont get it !

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