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All the bundled installers are gone. Next order of business is to rid the site of all deceptive advertising. The old owners began it, but it was not transparent
by loganabbott 11y ago
All the bundled installers are gone. Next order of business is to rid the site of all deceptive advertising. The old owners began it, but it was not transparent or easy for someone to report a deceptive ad. We will make sure soon that it is so we can begin removing all deceptive ads placed on SourceForge by advertisers buying traffic programatically.
- mrmondo 11y agoI'll still never trust them, ever again. On top of the lack of trust - the site has been so poorly designed for so long now which is completely unacceptable for a site that makes a profit. Why would you use sourceforge over say something like Gitlab?
- loganabbott 11y agoWe're going to improve the design as well. It's only been 2 weeks since we acquired the site. Hope we'll earn your trust back in time.
- mrmondo 11y agoToo little, too late I'm sorry. If you want to do something good why not start something good and then talk about how you wanted to create something modern, safe and based off the what you know when wrong with SF?
- loganabbott 11y agoBecause we'd rather support the tens of thousands of projects and developers, and millions of users that rely on SourceForge. Clean it up, improve the feature set, and be transparent. But alright then.
- susam 11y agoI moved to GitHub a long time ago, even before SourceForge went to the dark side, because GitHub provided features and a clean user interface that were far more convenient to developers. I don't plan to return to SourceForge again, but I see a good reason here why SourceForge might want to talk a little about their plans before implementing them. SourceForge has been losing developers and users. If the new owners of SourceForge talk about their plans, many who are contemplating moving away from SourceForge right now, might want to hold on to it a little longer due to the assurances provided by the new owners.
- chris_wot 11y agoYou've said this ad nauseum. We get it! Let the guy try to sort it out. He has a mammoth task ahead of him and I don't envy the work he's got to do to sort this out, but at least he's making an attempt. He's already made the right first moves. I'll be watching with interest. Either this won't work, or it will work really well! I can't see any middle ground. I hope for Logan's sake that he's a spectacular success and he makes a lot of money in an ethical way :-)
- loganabbott 11y agoThanks!
- daguava 11y agoI honestly wish you good luck. A lot of damage has been done, but given the right measures I think it can be undone.
- loganabbott 11y agoThanks much