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Thanks for the support.

I don't know if you guys will be able to turn it around, but I appreciate the fact that you're going to stop people getting infected with crapware by discontinuing past owners' practices.

I wish you the best of luck though because it would be doubly sad if you guys sold it to someone who put all the crapware right back.

Thanks. We are not planning on selling. In this for the long haul

If you can implement the features which Github has been failing to provide for so long (as per the various polemics which appear on here from time to time), then you could be well in business. Just need to distance yourselves well enough from the previous owners. Good luck!

Logan, Sourceforge is still an incredible valuable source of software and information both. Making it a trusted site again would be great. Best of luck.

Thanks. I appreciate the kind words. I think we'll have the ship righted sooner than people think.

Best of luck to you. It would be nice to see some alternative to Github. As nice as Github is, it's pretty currently pretty much a mono-culture, and that's never a good thing.

I wish you the best. If I can add my 2 cents: please, can you do something about the UI? It's dated badly and hard to use. Also: I realise you need to generate income from ads, but can you please please remove any ads that use dark patterns like buttons that look like you are going to download the software you came for?

The UI will be improved definitely. We just need some time (i.e. more than a couple weeks). It's an old, large beast so it will take a bit of time. And yes the deceptive advertising will be addressed.

Good on you :-)

Keep this up and you'll be the dev golden child in no time. Best of luck!

He's not a dev, strictly speaking, he's the new president of SourceForge Media. That actually raises my hopes, as the brass roughing it out in the comments and interacting is a rare thing these days.

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