Sourceforge got revived from its ashes though. It's a nice site nowdays.
Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos
by neurotrace on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @02:02PM
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I just opened up a project on there to see what you meant. I immediately got hit with 7 different ads on different parts of the page. It still feels pretty scummy to me. I understand the need for ads but 7? It seems excessive.
Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos
by croo on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:31AM
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Bundled adware were removed from projects and there is no multiple confusing download buttons or other dark patterns. You don't have to look out for scams all the time or distrust downloads from the site.
See https://sourceforge.net/blog/introducing-the-new-sourceforge...
Sourceforge did some absolutely egregious things, including bundling adware with windows binaries.
Maybe the people at Microsoft don't know it, but one of the reasons GitHub has such a huge market share is because it hasn't done any of those things.
Sure, MS could have bought it to use its reputation as capital and try and maximise income at all costs. It seems that would be somewhat counterproductive, given the long process Microsoft has gone through to start fixing its image with developers.