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Current Status

I just checked, and it seems that sourceforge.net is online, and fully functional. I think the Current Status section should either be removed, or updated to reflect the site's current online status. Darkinin (talk) 01:43, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Their own blog (http://sourceforge.net/blog) says that there are some major services not yet restored. I don't have a position on what the article should say, but "fully functional" is not correct. DMacks (talk) 03:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Several years later, SourceForge still displays:"The sourceforge.net website is temporarily in static offline mode. Only a very limited set of project pages are available until the main website returns to service." Santamoly (talk) 06:21, 14 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Santamoly: Sourceforge has been experiencing recent DDOS attacks and other problems, including a major outage for the past few days (starting February 27/28). This is a completely new problem and not, as you put it, "several years later" the same problem. This problem may however be related to a major hardware/power incident from September 2017 which fried a lot of hardware. Furthermore, Sourceforge was bought by a new owner (BizX) in January 2016 and has been executing a series of major policy, software, and hardware changes ever since. Read the following for more information:

172.88.134.103 (talk) 14:48, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Logo

SourceForge's logo has apparently changed. The logo here is outdated. TheDaJakester^Talk 20:34, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Irrelevant jargon

This article is a disaster. There's even an entire section of, from what I can see, specialist technobabble seemingly irrelevant to the rest of the article. What is this, why is it included, and what does it mean?

Simplifying a little, the SPF record for a domain is intended to identify those public IP addresses which are permitted to send mail for a domain.

As at August 2018 the SPF DNS TXT record for 'sourceforge.net' redirects to that for '_spf.sourceforge.net' which is

"v=spf1 ip4:172.16.0.0/12 ip4:216.105.38.0/26 -all"

The CIDR block 172.16.0.0/12 is reserved by IANA in RFC1918 for local private use, and thus has no place in any SPF record.

Oecology (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:20, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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