GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by zigzigzag on Friday December 16, 2016 @07:10AM (#13192707)

SourceForge wasn't spammy from day one. I remember it back in the first year or so of its existence. It was actually really good, and an absolute revolution for the open source community as no such sites had existed prior to that. It immediately gained massive traction and was every bit as central to the open source/free software community as github is today.

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by fergie on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @04:45AM (#13218590)

I used it from 2000ish until around the time that apt-get became good. I can't ever remember a time when sourceforge didnt make me try to click on ads when attempting to download software.

It was certainly a valuable tool and definitely the GitHub of its time, but man- soooo spammy.

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by qbaqbaqba on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:34PM (#13197068)

SourceForge has a new owner trying hard to bring it back to life.

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by h1d on Saturday December 17, 2016 @12:22PM (#13201462)

> trying hard to bring it back

Any source or info on this?

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