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beej71 on April 21, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge

That was a bummer. There was that point in time that ending up on SourceForge felt like ending up on one of those shady download pages. GitHub by comparison was a delight.

runlevel1 on April 21, 2022 [–]

When they made the download button send you to an interstitial page with ads and a countdown timer before starting the download, that felt eerily like those shady download sites.

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