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by loganabbott 9y ago
They're no longer at SourceForge.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Coulda just asked. Parent company is called BIZX. We own other sites like Wirefly.com, VoipReview.org, Voip-Info.org, and Slashdot.org.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Right now we monetize via display ads, but any logged in user or project admin will not see any ads. We are looking at ways to cut down on the amount of display ads going forward, and have already begun doing that as we get more direct part
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Just focused on doing right by the 1 million daily users that come to SourceForge to download one of 430,000 projects hosted there.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
We had built it for another internal project before we acquired SourceForge, so we decided to release it on SourceForge since people seemed to like it.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Yeah we ended that practice as soon as we acquired SourceForge over a year ago, and we have nothing to do with the company that made those decisions in the first place. It's in the blog post. As for ads/design- we know we can&#x27
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Yes definitely. Second half of 2018.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
It was, but we ended that practice immediately after acquiring SourceForge in 2016. More info in the OP or in an AMA I did here: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4n3e1s/the_state_...
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Yes that is correct. It syncs (copies) binaries from GH to SF, doesn't touch code.
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Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It to Be Legal for Comcast to Block BitTorrent(tech.slashdot.org)
9 points by loganabbott 9y ago|7 comments
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Prince responded to Slashdot here https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/23/149208/cloudflare-m... In a statement to Slashdot, Mr. Prince said: Probably the easiest thing would be to slow down reques
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Can the Pirate Bay Replace Ads with a Bitcoin Miner?(yro.slashdot.org)
8 points by loganabbott 9y ago|2 comments
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by loganabbott 9y ago
Trust me, we are trying.
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by loganabbott 9y ago
FYI my company acquired SourceForge in 2016 and have been improving significantly. No more bundled adware, eliminated deceptive ads, all projects are scanned for malware, https downloads and project web hosting, 2-factor auth & more. Bi
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by loganabbott 10y ago
We're a completely different company that owns SourceForge now than the one that made the decisions to erode trust. Everything we've been doing is is outlined here: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comme
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by loganabbott 10y ago
No we do not. When my company acquired SourceForge in 2016 the first thing we did was eliminate bundled adware installers. We now scan all projects for malware as well, have https downloads, and more. Big redesign coming soon too. Ars: htt
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by loganabbott 10y ago
That's good
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by loganabbott 10y ago
Gotta start somewhere
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by loganabbott 10y ago
Sorry to hear that. We would love to have you back at some point. I know it takes time to rebuild trust but hopefully people will see we are serious about it with the steps we have taken.
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by loganabbott 10y ago
Logan Abbott from SourceForge (and that reddit thread). We are aware of this. We were definitely not expecting this thread to become so big. We are adding international servers ASAP hopefully next week.
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by loganabbott 10y ago
We had a memory issue since we received an enormous influx of unexpected traffic from reddit. Adding capacity now
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SourceForge Launches HTML5 Speed Test(sourceforge.net)
3 points by loganabbott 10y ago|0 comments
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by loganabbott 10y ago
I prefer the speed test here: https://www.voipreview.org/speedtest No flash or silverlight required and a lot more details
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SourceForge now scans all projects for malware and displays warnings on downloads(sourceforge.net)
3 points by loganabbott 10y ago|0 comments
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by loganabbott 11y ago
Yes this is from the January sale. SourceForge and Slashdot have been owned jointly for years, our subsidiary is just named SourceForge Media. Notice is just legally required.
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by loganabbott 11y ago
Almost all tech. Why are you so focused on tourism?
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by loganabbott 11y ago
Thanks for the well wishes. We're not primarily a tourism-oriented website management firm. In fact over 90% of our sites are technology related. Maybe you didn't read the press release.
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by loganabbott 11y ago
No worries. Thanks.
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by loganabbott 11y ago
Thanks. We will improve the UI significantly.
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by loganabbott 11y ago
You're right and we will explore these

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