SourceForge
SourceForge kindly hosts FreeMind. See also SourceForge project of FreeMind. SourceForge provides forums for help and open discussion; mailing lists; trackers for bugs, feature requests and translations; download statistics, and other features.
Forums
Forums for discussing FreeMind at SourceForge (also at Forums):
- Help – Questions on tips or technical difficulties, no feature requests. Anonymous postings allowed.
- Open Discussion – Possible future directions, fundamentals, or whatever.
- Complaints from users – Complaints from users, even anonymous, angry and unpolite, on critical problems like losing of data. Anonymous postings allowed.
- Thank you for the music – A place to express your thanks and satisfaction with FreeMind, no feature requests. Anonymous postings allowed.
Mailing lists
Mailing lists, for contributors rather than users:
- freemind-developer – For developers.
- freemind-translator – For notification of translators.
You can search mailing lists.
Trackers
Trackers for FreeMind[1] at SourceForge (also at Trackers):
Statistics
Statistics:
SourceForge vs. GitHub
FreeMind has been using SourceForge since 2001 or thereabouts. As of late, GitHub became increasingly popular.
Dan Polansky: I see no pressing advantage of GitHub over SourceForge, which also offers Git hosting. I hate fashions (and fashionable nonsense).
Dan Polansky: There was a time when some shady company owning SourceForge was inserting dubious elements into SourceForge downloads. That was under DHI Group/Dice Holdings, I think (double check). That has changed with new owners of SourceForge, from what I know, although the article below sheds some doubt on it. Be it as it may, I know of no indication that FreeMind downloads are compromised in any way or install undesirable elements.
As of Jan 2026, Apache OpenOffice uses SourceForge downloads[2]. If they did not trust SourceForge, they would not do so.
Links:
- SourceFAIL? SourceForge accused of shady practices (again), 4 Jun 2015, computerworld.com
- SourceForge – Installer with adware, wikipedia.org
See also
Further reading
- SourceForge, wikipedia.org