There are a few reasons I won't use SF for my projects.
First, I don't like all the advertisements and the time delay to download stuff. I understand hosting a lot of projects costs money, and that's part of the reason I pay for a GitHub account. I don't have any popular projects, but I like that the few who are interested don't have a million advertisements shoved in their face next to my stuff.
Second, there used to be a lot of hoops to jump through to get a project on SF. Admittedly I haven't tried in a long time, but there used to be several pages of forms to fill out when creating a new project on SF, including steps like selecting a license. On GitHub I click "New Repository" on my home page, fill in the project name and click "Create Repository".
Third, I don't care about binary hosting. IMO if a project is big enough that people who can't compile it themselves are starting to use it, the project should have its own site. For example, I've never gone to SF to get VLC, I've gone to the VLC website, and followed their download link. It's actually annoying to me that VLC hosts their binaries on SF, because I have to sit through the time delayed advertisements before downloading.
And finally, SF only hosts open source projects. With GitHub (and BitBucket) I have the ability to create private repositories for closed source applications.
Their creation process is now on par with github and others.
They got rid of the ads. Also I have adblockers installed. If you/your audience are the type frequenting HN and working on code by and large, you'll also have some kind of adblocker installed on the browsers? Aren't ads a non-issue under these circumstances?
First, I don't like all the advertisements and the time delay to download stuff. I understand hosting a lot of projects costs money, and that's part of the reason I pay for a GitHub account. I don't have any popular projects, but I like that the few who are interested don't have a million advertisements shoved in their face next to my stuff.
Second, there used to be a lot of hoops to jump through to get a project on SF. Admittedly I haven't tried in a long time, but there used to be several pages of forms to fill out when creating a new project on SF, including steps like selecting a license. On GitHub I click "New Repository" on my home page, fill in the project name and click "Create Repository".
Third, I don't care about binary hosting. IMO if a project is big enough that people who can't compile it themselves are starting to use it, the project should have its own site. For example, I've never gone to SF to get VLC, I've gone to the VLC website, and followed their download link. It's actually annoying to me that VLC hosts their binaries on SF, because I have to sit through the time delayed advertisements before downloading.
And finally, SF only hosts open source projects. With GitHub (and BitBucket) I have the ability to create private repositories for closed source applications.