On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:05:01AM +0000, Jonathan Deer wrote: > Think of it this way: when someone with an adblocker like uBlock tries > to access a sourceforge project page, they get a warning screen. Some > people are aware that this is because of sourceforge's recent change > in business practice, but the average user might think that the > software they're trying to download is bad for their computer and will > navigate away. It's potentially damaging to your name and your > projects' reputation is what I'm trying to say. > well, i can see how that would be the case if i was distributing binaries, especially for windows. but given the entry barrier to using mbsync from source, i think my target audience isn't affected much by such "distractions".
> But to be fair, they have become pretty shady. They took over VLC's project > page without notice, for example: > > https://blog.l0cal.com/2015/06/02/what-happened-to-sourceforge/ > yes, that's pretty nasty indeed. i personally hope they go broke and some heavily funded organization which is actually dedicated to oss picks up the pieces. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
