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by DoofusOfDeath 3088 days ago
I'll second that. To be honest the Sourceforge brand seems like more of a liability than an asset to me.

I don't know if I'm representative of the majority, but if I need to download some software and find that it's hosted on Sourceforge, my first few thoughts are typically: 1) Wait, SourceForge injected adware. I wonder if they still do? 2) This project is probably dead, because it's still on SourceForge.

I'm sure I can be trained out of that, but I'm surprised you guys reckon it's worth the effort, rather than just using a new name.

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I totally agree with this, including your 1 and 2, and the parent.

This very thread - with repeated posts about malware - demonstrates what "SourceForge" means these days to so many people.

It doesn't make sense to me that if the site is back to being one of the good guys, it keeps a name now mostly famous/notorious for bad practices.