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I wasn't aware of any changes. What did they change?
by mashlol 10y ago
I wasn't aware of any changes. What did they change?
- niftich 10y agoUnder new management, they discontinued the bundled adware, started scanning all projects for malware, and are shown that they're serious about trying to repair damage to the brand caused by the previous owner [1][2]. [1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-new-management-sourceforge-moves-to-put-badness-in-past/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/under-... [2] https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThanks for the reminder. I somehow missed or forgotten that, and continued to be heavily biased against them. Hopefully they'll succeed in bringing SourceForge back to a respectable level.
- detaro 10y agoThey were bought in January and the new owners have reverted a lot of the heavily criticized policies and try to gain trust back. (e.g. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11860752)