Not just because I like gerrit, but because the github monoculture is wearing on me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Adware_controversy
After slashdot was purchased from condenast (i think?)
(And yes, fake download buttons on a site serving binary downloads went exactly where you'd expect.)
Yes and today Ad-Sense (Google) took the Crown from being then biggest Scam AD's deploy-er.
And really i don't think that's true before they where sold, ad's sure, scam/malware stuff? I don't think so...at least i cant remember.
But SF had FTP, Websites, SVN hosting and i think even a WIKI, so you can hardly compare it with Google-Code...and hey at least they opensource'd their "forge":
IDK i don't have such bad memory's about SF, even today you serve big files over SF because of GH limits.
True after slashdot got buy'd, they also served malware AFTER the takeover (2013), and now look at that year:
Allura graduated from incubation with the Apache Software Foundation in March >>2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Allura
Google-Code was in 2006 right?
At that point, SF was serving malware and stuff. It was really not a great time.
Github became a monoculture years later when others folded. Google code was shut down in 2016. Github wasn't quite a monoculture then.
I also said, back in 2014, that it might be necessary to do something like google code again in 5-10 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8605689
10 years later, here we are i guess :)
Though i think what i said then still holds - Github is not anywhere near as bad or unreliable as SF was.