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  1. Re:Fortunately Slashdot is Still Pure on How Podcasts Became a Seductive -- and Sometimes Slippery -- Mode of Storytelling (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. We never do. Thank you.

  2. Re:SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Calling someone a jackass doesn't get people to listen to you either

  3. Re:SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Calm down dude, I'm right.

  4. Re:Sourceforge needs to stay dead on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, completely different ownership. Our only history is removing all that crap and spending a lot of time and resources on improvements.

  5. Re:SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    You're arguing some weird semantics. SourceForge is the brand, but my company is an investment vehicle that purchased the ASSET sourceforge.net from the previous company. Do some basic research on corporate structures if you need more help.

  6. Re:Nice! Didn't know that. on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank you

  7. Re:Oh yeah lets leave somewhere good for crap on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe. Although to use your analogy, I'd consider us more "Germany" than the individual who runs it.

  8. Re:SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? SourceForge did. My company did not. The first thing we did was get rid the bundled adware. Literally as soon as we signed the papers.

  9. Re:Go fuck yourself, SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah you said that already

  10. Re:SourceForge Isn't An Alternative on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Lol

  11. Re:Go fuck yourself, SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thanks for the feedback. I will explore it. By the way if you log in you'll never see ads.

  12. Re:SourceForge Isn't An Alternative on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    You posted this twice so I'll respond twice: We actually don't bundle spyware with our installers. In fact that's the first practice we eliminated when we acquired SourceForge in 2016, along with instituting malware scans for every project, https downloads and project web hosting, a redesigned experience, and much more. https://arstechnica.com/inform...

  13. Re:Go fuck yourself, SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    We actually don't bundle spyware with our installers. In fact that's the first practice we eliminated when we acquired SourceForge in 2016, along with instituting malware scans for every project, https downloads and project web hosting, a redesigned experience, and much more. https://arstechnica.com/inform...

  14. Re:SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Still over a million daily users, so we're gonna do right by them

  15. Re:Go fuck yourself, SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Completely different owners did that. We eliminated that nonsense ASAP in 2016

  16. Re:Go fuck yourself, SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thank you my friend. Such is the world.

  17. Re:SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    My company has never bundled malware with any projects. In fact we eliminated that practice immediately after acquiring SourceForge and now scan every single project on the site for malware.

  18. Re:Go fuck yourself, SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What's wrong with you?

  19. Re:Oh yeah lets leave somewhere good for crap on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Completely different owners did that. We got rid of all that nonsense back in 2016

  20. Re:Sourceforge needs to stay dead on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Completely different owners did that. We got rid of all that nonsense in 2016

  21. Re:Bwahahaahahah on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Completely different owners did that. We got rid of all that nonsense.

  22. Re:Go fuck yourself, SourceForge on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire Coding Site GitHub (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks 93. I appreciate it. Sometimes I feel like someone saw it fit to burn down a museum and all the contents inside, and I stepped in to put out the fire, yet I still get some really vile hatred. In case anyone is wondering, here's what we've done since we acquired SourceForge in 2016 https://sourceforge.net/blog/i...

  23. Re:Blue headline? on CSS Is Now So Overpowered It Can Deanonymize Facebook Users (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    This story was autoposted from the Firehose without editor input due to reaching an extreme threshold of upvotes. New feature we are testing

  24. Yes just live testing a feature that 93 Escort Wagon remembers from a while back. Autoposting extremely popular firehose items to the front page. Won't happen unless it's extremely popular.

  25. Re: Dear Slashdot management on Robin "Roblimo" Miller, a Long-Time Voice of the Linux Community, Has Passed Away (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the kind words. Yeah it's definitely targeted at getting the software in front of an end user, especially non-technical end users. The search and discovery features are good for people to just find the software they need. Glad you like it. We do have some projects with hundreds or even thousands of repos within a single project, so that does work, but it can be cumbersome or slow in some places. I'd recommend making multiple projects depending on how those 100+ repos relate to each other. Several projects to split the repos into, or even 1 project per repo.