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What ever happened to SourceForge? (lemmy.myserv.one)

submitted 4 months ago by Path@lemmy.myserv.one to c/opensource@programming.dev

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So I remember back in the day when Source Forge was THE place to share open source projects. What ever happened? I can't think of a single recent project that is there. Everything is on GitHub, although I've also seen some things on Codeberg and GitLab recently.

Will github eventually go the same way?

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

They were prevalent. Then they started with adware. Then they bundled adware without developer consent.

Eventually they were bought with a goal of deshittyfication. So theyre fine and have good offerings, but the UI and UX is much worse than other platforms (never improved).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Adware_controversy