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Comment by codazoda | Hacker News Reader

Wait. People still use sourceforge? I thought it was a wasteland of old projects that had crapware attached to all their downloads.

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Sourceforge doesn't belong to the company that did the crapware thing anymore, and the new(-ish by now) owners stopped doing that.

EDIT: relevant announcement from January 2016: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut...

They should just shut it down.

It's hard to think of a domain name with a worse reputation in tech circles.

Really? ... Please don't post shallow hyperbole noise like that.

It's got an excellent reputation with open source fans who were around at the turn of the century.

That describes me and I didn't follow its course after the crapware thing so it had a terrible reputation with me until I just learned about the acquisition in this thread. I wouldn't be so sure.

I heard there was new management that was acknowledging those events as mistakes and trying to fix them. Not sure though.

Sourceforge is fine nowadays, it changed owners a few times in the past years, the new team is doing good work.

zsh still uses sourceforge, if that's worth anything

lol, I opened comments to post the same question as yours. Whenever I see something on Sourceforge my default reaction is that it is something shady.

It's been cleaned up though. New site owners. Hard to break that reaction though.

Yea, it's no longer owned by the Dice/Slashdot people. Still that stigma and the bundled adware pushes from the previous owners has kinda tainted them.

I'm glad to see it's still going. Freshmeat/Freecode is now a time capsule sadly.

SourceForge and Slashdot are both owned by BIZX. They bought them both from DHI (Dice) back in the start of 2016. The sale was announced in January of 2016. BIZX is pronounced like 'physics' but with a B. As near as I can tell, BIZX is an advertising company.

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