HACKER Q&A
📣 gitgud

What Happened to Source-Forge?


Sourceforge.net was the centre of free/open software for a long time. But now it's just painful to go on their website and be bombarded by advertising and convoluted UX choices.

After browsing through some projects, I noticed they don't even support git, only svn, which isn't terrible....

It just feels like they're not even trying to adapt to a changing market which is dominated by git tooling. Such a shame...


  👤 dylz Accepted Answer ✓
IIRC they sold out, served malware for the longest time, everyone left, new(?) buyer tried to stop serving direct malware downloads, hijacking projects, etc but damage was done.