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xstas1yesterday at 10:18 PM1 replyview on HN

I do remember early SourceForge. It remember it as very clean, simple and reliable, and popular.


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Steeeveyesterday at 10:38 PM

Not popular. Core. It was the trusted place for open source software. Then it was ads. Then the day they bundled there was a MASS exodus. And the 14 people who ran their own source code interfaces scoffed and said "see. I told you." And we all said "yup" - we knew something would happen one day, but that was a worst-case-scenario that few thought was even a remote possibility.

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