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And a summary of what has changed at SourceForge since it was acquired in 2016:

Removed bundled adware from projects immediately

Implemented malware scans for every single project on SourceForge

Site completely redesigned

Added multi-factor authentication

Removed ads for developers (logged in users will not see any ads)

Added HTTPS support for project website hosting

https://sourceforge.net/blog/introducing-the-new-sourceforge...

No, thank you. SourceForge used to inject adware into projects. Now, they're trying to profit from the anxiety surrounding the GitHub acquisition talks.

I'll take my chances with Microsoft.

Yeah they used to. That's why I purchased SourceForge and removed all the adware. Completely different owners. We had nothing to do with those decisions and reversed them immediately.

In my books SourceForge has a worse rep than Microsoft has ever had since bundling what could basically be comparable to viruses in installers in the past

Yeah that was bad. Which is why I bought SourceForge and removed the bundled adware immediately in 2016. We're completely different owners and anyone involved with the bundling back then is no longer at SourceForge.

There's a certain irony that you're hoping people will forgive Sourceforge after two years, because of a change of ownership, from people who haven't forgiven Microsoft for things that happened upwards of twenty years ago when it was also under different leadership.

Good luck, though, we need more alternatives out there, and today's probably a great time to remind people you're an option.

Thanks. We still have 500,000 projects and over a million daily users, so at the very least, we're focused on doing right by them. But the more the merrier, and the more options out there the better the OSS community is.

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