Something came up last time Sourceforge was discussed here, namely &quot;why are projects still using it?&quot;...<p>I&#x27;m the project lead for LXQt (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lxqt.org" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lxqt.org</a>). We inherited some infrastructure legacy from LXDE, which was hosted on sourceforge. Today, we have moved most of the legacy to Github but we&#x27;re still using Sourceforge&#x27;s mailing list system.<p>We&#x27;re moving to a self-hosted mailman3 instance but it&#x27;s been excruciatingly painful. Email is <i>not fun</i> to deal with.<p>So I&#x27;m pitching this to bored devs and entrepreneurs: Help us, and many other projects, by creating a &quot;Github for mailing lists&quot; with a web client featuring a clean high quality UI, easily browsable&#x2F;linkable archives, etc. Make it open source, make it self-hostable, stuff in enterprise support. Make it quick and easy to create new lists.<p>This model can work. It&#x27;s not unheard of either (cf. Discourse), but it just hasn&#x27;t been executed properly yet, or is forum-only and does not support email properly. Right now, the UX of mailing list software is like IRC&#x27;s. Very raw. If it were made more seamless, more approachable, overall easier, it would have a similar effect as Slack has had on unthreaded-async-topical-conversation.<p>PS: You should change your adblocker to uBlock Origin. It blocks Sourceforge as a malware risk.