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Slightly off topic, but wtf happened to sourceforge? A decade ago it was _the_ place to host open source projects. How did they lose almost all of the market sh

• sngz 4y ago
  they got caught packaging installers with adware / bloatware. Lots of projects / people moved away from it. After the backlash they reversed the policy but the damage was done at that point already. https://www.pcworld.com/article/419579/new-sourceforge-owners-kill-contentious-devshare-bloatware-program.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/419579/new-sourceforge-owner...
• tiborsaas 4y ago
  User experience and design. GitHub was a fresh breath of air compared to SF at the time.
• hilyen 4y ago
  Github makes money from private repo subscriptions, Sourceforge was ad based. Also Github focuses on source code hosting, a lot / most Sourceforge projects just hosted the release files to a project. The quality of the site went down hill, even with ads showing download buttons trying to trick the user.