[Xylemon]

I've heard about how SF has been some financial trouble, but isn't all this adware nonsense just going to hurt them more in the end? Surely some crowdfunding option could've been more of a viable effort...

[coldpie]

They've been getting scummier and scummier. They've been doing this ad bundling thing for years, and their entire website is basically unusable without adblock. Someone at Slashdot enterprises has no idea what they're doing. At any rate, SourceForge is going to die soon. I wouldn't be surprised if Google starts to delist them for distributing malware.

[forthefuture]

AOL has proven that as long as a sizable portion of your users are technically inept, you can extract value out of them like foie gras.

[marcosdumay]

SF current administrator is a company despised by many of their end users. They had the option of crowfunding before it was sold, but do not have anymore.

[davidgerard]

They're owned by a job ads and recruitment company. It's been years since they gave a hoot about the open-source businesses.