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Wait. People still use sourceforge? I thought it was a wasteland of old projects that had crapware attached to all their downloads.

ssijak 9y ago
lol, I opened comments to post the same question as yours. Whenever I see something on Sourceforge my default reaction is that it is something shady.
- swsieber 9y ago
  It's been cleaned up though. New site owners. Hard to break that reaction though.
  - djsumdog 9y ago
    Yea, it's no longer owned by the Dice/Slashdot people. Still that stigma and the bundled adware pushes from the previous owners has kinda tainted them. I'm glad to see it's still going. Freshmeat/Freecode is now a time capsule sadly.
    - KGIII 9y ago
      SourceForge and Slashdot are both owned by BIZX. They bought them both from DHI (Dice) back in the start of 2016. The sale was announced in January of 2016. BIZX is pronounced like 'physics' but with a B. As near as I can tell, BIZX is an advertising company.
exikyut 9y ago
I heard there was new management that was acknowledging those events as mistakes and trying to fix them. Not sure though.
detaro 9y ago
Sourceforge doesn't belong to the company that did the crapware thing anymore, and the new(-ish by now) owners stopped doing that. EDIT: relevant announcement from January 2016: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...
- moe 9y ago
  They should just shut it down. It's hard to think of a domain name with a worse reputation in tech circles.
  - mynewtb 9y ago
    Really? ... Please don't post shallow hyperbole noise like that.
  - tome 9y ago
    It's got an excellent reputation with open source fans who were around at the turn of the century.
    - pluma 9y ago
      That describes me and I didn't follow its course after the crapware thing so it had a terrible reputation with me until I just learned about the acquisition in this thread. I wouldn't be so sure.
azeirah 9y ago
Sourceforge is fine nowadays, it changed owners a few times in the past years, the new team is doing good work.
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LambdaComplex 9y ago
zsh still uses sourceforge, if that's worth anything

ssijak 9y ago

lol, I opened comments to post the same question as yours. Whenever I see something on Sourceforge my default reaction is that it is something shady.

swsieber 9y ago
It's been cleaned up though. New site owners. Hard to break that reaction though.
- djsumdog 9y ago
  Yea, it's no longer owned by the Dice/Slashdot people. Still that stigma and the bundled adware pushes from the previous owners has kinda tainted them. I'm glad to see it's still going. Freshmeat/Freecode is now a time capsule sadly.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    SourceForge and Slashdot are both owned by BIZX. They bought them both from DHI (Dice) back in the start of 2016. The sale was announced in January of 2016. BIZX is pronounced like 'physics' but with a B. As near as I can tell, BIZX is an advertising company.

exikyut 9y ago

I heard there was new management that was acknowledging those events as mistakes and trying to fix them. Not sure though.

detaro 9y ago

Sourceforge doesn't belong to the company that did the crapware thing anymore, and the new(-ish by now) owners stopped doing that. EDIT: relevant announcement from January 2016: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-future-plans/ https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...

moe 9y ago
They should just shut it down. It's hard to think of a domain name with a worse reputation in tech circles.
- mynewtb 9y ago
  Really? ... Please don't post shallow hyperbole noise like that.
- tome 9y ago
  It's got an excellent reputation with open source fans who were around at the turn of the century.
  - pluma 9y ago
    That describes me and I didn't follow its course after the crapware thing so it had a terrible reputation with me until I just learned about the acquisition in this thread. I wouldn't be so sure.

azeirah 9y ago

Sourceforge is fine nowadays, it changed owners a few times in the past years, the new team is doing good work.

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LambdaComplex 9y ago

zsh still uses sourceforge, if that's worth anything