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by loganabbott 8y ago
Indeed, Thanks. We did.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
This diatribe just tells me Websense and you are not informed on the current state of the open source community. We bought SourceForge in 2016 specifically because we hated what happened with DevShare and killed it on day one. You can conti
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by loganabbott 8y ago
We have nothing to do with the previous owners. In fact, FileZilla from their own official site still has a bundled installer, but we made them remove it from SourceForge. SourceForge FileZilla is cleaner than the official site. Check Virus
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by loganabbott 8y ago
No adware since 2016
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Ship's still in port actually. Over a million users a day. They're on board and we're improving it for them. Bitbucket's cool too, but it's just a different ship.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
We are not the same people who did that. We stopped it one day one.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
And we very much appreciate PortableApps
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Do you know we have nothing to do with the people that made the decisions to do that bad stuff? I, like you, didn't like it, so I bought SourceForge to remove the bad stuff. I still get shit for it. Kinda weird because the people givin
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Yeah we're profitable now without DevShare. Lotta people hated what happened to SourceForge, including me. That's why I bought it and removed DevShare.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Thanks my friend
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Still a million daily users and 500,000 projects. You can say it's dead because you don't use it, but we're just focused on doing right by them.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Thanks. We obviously have to do a better job of getting the word out. I appreciate what you said though.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Because over a million people daily still use SourceForge, and over 500,000 projects do as well. We're focused on doing right by them.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
It was 3 years ago, and completely different ownership.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Almost nothing in this article is accurate. We’ve been doing everything we can to improve SourceForge and we did not hide anything. The writer has an axe to grind for some reason, and maybe his anger is warranted, but it's definitely d
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Yeah they used to. That's why I purchased SourceForge and removed all the adware. Completely different owners. We had nothing to do with those decisions and reversed them immediately.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Thanks. We still have 500,000 projects and over a million daily users, so at the very least, we're focused on doing right by them. But the more the merrier, and the more options out there the better the OSS community is.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Yeah that was bad. Which is why I bought SourceForge and removed the bundled adware immediately in 2016. We're completely different owners and anyone involved with the bundling back then is no longer at SourceForge.
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by loganabbott 8y ago
And a summary of what has changed at SourceForge since it was acquired in 2016: Removed bundled adware from projects immediately Implemented malware scans for every single project on SourceForge Site completely redesigned Added multi-factor
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GitHub to SourceForge import tool(sourceforge.net)
14 points by loganabbott 8y ago|7 comments
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by loganabbott 8y ago
Hi, president of SourceForge here. This issue affected a very small number of projects (.03%) and they were contacted directly. It is very unfortunate but we are not "hiding it". Also, I see a lot of comments here not realizing So
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Great thanks for the feedback. Looking into it.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Thanks. I am aware.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
If you're logged in you don't see any ads.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
It's something we're trying to come up with solutions for, so that we can reduce or eliminate ads on SourceForge. But for now, any user or developer who creates an account on SourceForge will never see ads.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
GitHub is much larger by traffic, but that doesn't mean we are going to abandon the million users we get every day and the 430,000 projects hosted at SourceForge. It's not a zero sum game. Some people like using GitHub's suit
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Glad to hear it too!
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Thanks for the bug report I'll take a look. My company didn't put ads in the downloads, and we when we took over we stopped that practice. I think most people can discern the difference, but if not it's okay. We're just
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Dice.com is who acquired SourceForge a handful of years ago. My company (BIZX) acquired SourceForge from DICE.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
We get over a million users per day looking to download OSS. If you have binaries on SF you can reach these people through our very robust discovery tools and strength of our search results in Google. We also give project admins detailed do

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