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Re:Introducing the new SourceForge by signal11 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:07PM (#16109476)
I wish you every success and am not going to hold pre-acquisition decisions against you. The last thing FL/OSS code hosting needs is a monoculture.

However, if you could publicize -- anywhere -- how you plan to monetize, that would be very useful in building back user trust (just my 2c).

Also, re design - it would be very useful to have something comparable to Github/Bitbucket (and Gitlab I guess), all of which are in a similar space. Perhaps one for the roadmap?

Thanks again!

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Re:Introducing the new SourceForge by loganabbott on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:13PM (#16109538)
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 partnerships.
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Re:Introducing the new SourceForge by mindcrime on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @03:50PM (#16109899)
Is a GitHub-like paid account feature in the cards? FWIW, I happily pay GitHub every month, for two separate accounts (one for purely "personal" projects, and one for projects from my startup). I can't help but think there are people / projects that would be happy to pay SourceForge the service you provide.
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