Let me apologize in advance for neglecting to sugarcoat this feedback:
This would benefit in a major way from a pass by a designer / UX person. The first thing I noticed (and the reason that I won't even try using it) is that it's significantly uglier than my terminal. GitHub has set the bar for Git web UX at "pleasant enough to look at all day" and this falls way short of that. I struggle, probably more than average, with spacing and layout; but I am one dev and they are the Apache Foundation.
It's also hella slow: it is to GitLab as GitLab is to GitHub.
It looks like someone saw SourceForge and thought "You know what would be great, if I could host my project on SourceForge, but have to deal with all of the admin myself too!"
If the infrastructure underneath is solid, it might be as easy as redoing the presentation layer to make it more reasonable... but I'd have to have more than a cursory glance to tell. It's just hard to want to do that when you've immediately got the taste of SourceForge in your mouth...
I think it's the underlying software that powers SourceForge itself. At least, that's what I gather from some pages on sourceforge.net displaying "Powered by Apache Allura" inside the footer.
"Allura began in October 2009 as an open-source reimplementation in Python of the developer tools for SourceForge (previously written in PHP), and was first announced in March 2011. Allura became the default platform for new projects on SourceForge in July 2011."
I love it. The problem I have with Github is that for them everything starts with a repo, even projects, which usually should consist of multiple repo are reverse, one repo can have multiple projects.
I like functionalities, UX sucks but it doesn't matter for me.
This would benefit in a major way from a pass by a designer / UX person. The first thing I noticed (and the reason that I won't even try using it) is that it's significantly uglier than my terminal. GitHub has set the bar for Git web UX at "pleasant enough to look at all day" and this falls way short of that. I struggle, probably more than average, with spacing and layout; but I am one dev and they are the Apache Foundation.
It's also hella slow: it is to GitLab as GitLab is to GitHub.