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loganabbott | 7 years ago | on: A Brief History of SourceForge, and a Look Towards the Future

Hi, president of SourceForge here. Glad this is trending, albeit a few months later. These articles seem to trend on HN every few months, with many people not realizing SourceForge changed ownership in 2016 and that the new team's been working hard on improving.

To be clear, we had nothing to do with the bundled adware decisions of 2015, and when we took over in 2016, the first thing we did was remove the bundled adware, as well as institute malware scans for every project on the site.

We're working hard to restore trust, so if we win some of you back that would be cool. However, we're just focused on doing right by our million daily users.

loganabbott | 7 years ago | on: SourceForge's GitHub Importer

Thanks for the input. I am not trying to be insulting to anyone here. If it came off that way, I apologize. I am just, maybe too frustratingly, trying to get the point across that we are not the same as the previous owners. I understand why the name might confuse people though.

loganabbott | 7 years ago | on: SourceForge's GitHub Importer

My point was not to be insulting, it was to draw attention to the fact that I don't know this person, just like most people don't know what's going on behind the scenes at SourceForge, or just how healthy we are as a company.

loganabbott | 7 years ago | on: SourceForge's GitHub Importer

Sorry if my comments rubbed you the wrong way, but it's a bit frustrating when these threads pop up weekly, and people feel like it's open license to attack me and my company. We really are doing our best to make SourceForge a trusted destination, but still get the flack as if we were the previous ownership.

loganabbott | 7 years ago | on: SourceForge's GitHub Importer

I'm not frustrated, but these threads show up on HN almost weekly now, with armchair quarterbacks who really are not current on the state of open source opining ill informed opinions. They even know we are new owners who immediately killed all the bad stuff, and still blame us. I cared about SourceForge, so I bought it and removed DevShare, and still get the blame. People know that we having nothing to do with the old owners, but recreational online outrage is fun, so they continue to blame us for saving it. Cognitive dissonance is en vogue right now. I guess if someone's lonely Sunday night is made better by shitting on the people who did everything in their power to save SourceForge, then go for it. I just think people's time can be used better.
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