That ship has sailed. SourceForge has little to offer in their API: https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/apiplatform/sourceforge/#/port... Bitbucket for comparison: https://developer.atlassian.com/bitbucket/api/2/reference/re...
Ship's still in port actually. Over a million users a day. They're on board and we're improving it for them. Bitbucket's cool too, but it's just a different ship.
Despite the general negativity expressed in many comments, I commend you for trying to clean up SourceForge. It's very clearly an uphill battle.
Thanks. Yep we killed the bundled adware and fake download buttons on DAY ONE. Nice to hear that at least some people understand that.
You're obviously very frustrated by how people see the service, but you can't blame them. The GIMP incident made pretty big news, and for many people, the name "SourceForge" will stay equivalent to a malware-injecting host. Anyone who decided to keep the name should have anticipated that.
How fortunate for Apple that they weren't forever condemned in the same manner for how they screwed over Lisa buyers.
You said his company was permanently cursed. He showed up to cheerfully deny the curse existed, then you called him a liar and said no one important used Sourceforge. Now you say he is “publically attacking” you just by saying you are wrong. Ok. I am going to give him the benefit of the doubt and not believe you.
Ahhh logic and reason. Feels like drinking a cold coca cola in the hot sun. Thank you.
Ahhh, the promotion of a crap service. Soak in the irrelevance, sourceforge CEO.
SourceForge gets shunned first because it’s easy. There are lots of great alternatives to SourceForge. SourceForge was already on the decline before their adware bundling fiasco so continuing to not use SourceForge is no burden for most devs. Second, what SourceForge did was worse than your examples. They modified trusted applications to add essentially a malware payload. This is worse than Facebook collecting too mu…
It's worth noting that SourceForge didn't modify trusted applications. They switched their download buttons on the site to download an "installer app" by default that would act as the installer, offer bundleware, and then live download the actual app installer as part of the install process. Apps like GIMP etc were never, to my knowledge, modified to bundle GIMP and bundleware within a single installer. Source: I was…
Thanks for sharing the highly relevant piece of information. It always bothered me someone had to go through the effort to download the original source and rebuild the projects, just the thought of all the effort taken to do that... It seemed odd, I can imagine some projects having some obscure build processes (it happens) and the amount of effort taken to add in their spyware installer seemed a little crazy to me.
Gotta feel bad for SourceForge the new owners reversed the malpractices of its previous owners immediately and yet the damage is permanently done. I'll never understand why some think distributing spyware / malware for money is even remotely right in any way, shape, and form. How is any of it legal half the time...
Why would you feel bad for us? We removed the malpractices right away, became profitable, improved the experience for over a million daily users, and are growing at a rate not seen since before the problems. I'd say we have the opposite of a problem. A few random armchair quarterbacks on Hackers News aren't gonna get us down.
I meant the negative view that will remain for those who are not aware of the U-turn that you've done for SourceForge. I agree. Care to share some of the future goals you have for SourceForge? Or link to any public statements of such? Would love to see where SourceForge is headed.
This is true for me as well. SourceForge stopped being the host for anything I cared about years ago. If I land on SourceForge today because they host project X that might solve my problem, I generally start looking for project Y somewhere else.
That doesn't really make any sense today though.
Sure it does. If hosting on SourceForge is predictive of abandoned software, avoiding SourceForge is a useful heuristic.
I get that this is probably not a story you want to hear about your product but it’s true.
Websense blacklisted Sourceforge after the 2013 DevShare debacle. It has remained blacklisted since. It is blacklisted in many other web application firewalls and content gateways too. Sourceforge is inaccessible from many corporate networks due to this. It will remain inaccessible for many more years to come. It's unfortunate how Sourceforge, once a leader in the open source community, lost the trust and reputation…
>It may take another 14 years to regain this lost trust and even that may not be enough. That's absolutely absurd given how often the biggest names in 'tech' make headlines with one egregious act or another, on a seemingly weekly basis, and continue to march on. As if the tech community can sit atop some moral high ground, thumbing its nose at SourceForge. But nah, let's just keep crapping on a company no longer unde…
it might be worth considering that "the biggest names in 'tech'" are also general consumer-facing, which benefits from public ignorance and apathy.
Websense blacklisted Sourceforge after the 2013 DevShare debacle. It has remained blacklisted since. It is blacklisted in many other web application firewalls and content gateways too. Sourceforge is inaccessible from many corporate networks due to this. It will remain inaccessible for many more years to come. It's unfortunate how Sourceforge, once a leader in the open source community, lost the trust and reputation…
This diatribe just tells me Websense and you are not informed on the current state of the open source community. We bought SourceForge in 2016 specifically because we hated what happened with DevShare and killed it on day one. You can continue hating us simply because of the previous owners, but you can probably find better stuff to do with your time. Nobody uses WebSense anymore anyway except for high schools trying…
> Nobody uses WebSense anymore
anecdotal but i work at a megacorp with a 6-figure headcount, and i've seen a websense message or two.