Scribus alternate sites, like scribus . fr, are they legitimate

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Hello everyone,
I am a newbe here, and so far did not found an answer in the search engine of this forum.
Is the web site scribus . fr legitimate?

When I started to look after scribus, I was directed to the .FR site as I am french speaking person.

I did realize something was wrong when I started to download the exe files. The link is not directing to source Forge , but rather to an endless loop of ads.

Anyways, I do enjoy Scribus, and I hope to learn and contribute trough this forum.


utnik

Quote...Is the web site scribus . fr legitimate?

it looks ok to me.
...and the links under télécharger scribus for the different operating systems lead to the usual sourceforge site.

utnik

a.l.e

As far as I know, the site is not related to the Scribus project.

My browser marks it as potentially having malware and does not want me to see it.

Use it at your own risk.

I'm disabling the links.

MrB

Its not an official Scribus site, even if it has Scribus content.

PZL_P11c

Quote from: utnik on May 31, 2026, 06:17:56 PM
Quote...Is the web site scribus . fr legitimate?

it looks ok to me.
...and the links under télécharger scribus for the different operating systems lead to the usual sourceforge site.

utnik
The text for the download shows Sourceforge, but the actual link behind points to "digisplendid.com/scribus-download/". That's why I believe the .FR site has been hacked or is a malware platform

antoineb

Hello,
It is an unofficial site that has been occupying the scribus . fr domain for a very long time. Several URLs do not point to the correct files.

And there is even a page that collects donations!

Bonjour,
C'est un site non officiel qui squat le domaine scribus . fr depuis très longtemps.
Exemple de liens :

Il y à même une page qui collecte des dons !

https :// scribus . fr/faire-un-don/
I have been a regular French user of Scribus. I often use this excellent free desktop publishing software, but as I find the documentation very disparate, I have transformed my personal notes into freely accessible documentation in French (CC BY-SA).

a.l.e

I had a look at the site through archive.org.

The site has changed at some time in the last couple of years, and now -- as PZL_P11c wrote above -- it tricks you into (trying to) downloading Scribus from a very unusual site.

I will add a notice in the first message in this topic.