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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 17 2015, @05:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the so-long,-suckers dept.

In light of the recent activities of Dice Holdings trying to monetize the website it purchased in September 2012, Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports

The admin of the popular NotePad++ text editor announced [June 15] that the project would leave SourceForge

[...] The project will use Github as the development hub for Notepad++ exclusively.

[...] tmux, nmap, [and] VLC for instance [are also trying] to get Sourceforge to remove [their] projects from the site

In the comments, Oxa June notes that Pale Moon is looking to move away.

In addition, Softpedia notes that WINE is migrating away.

Related: SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware
Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice-Owned SourceForge


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  • (Score: 2) by Rich on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:20AM

    by Rich (945) on Thursday June 18 2015, @11:20AM (#197752) Journal

    let's face it - we're not a big dent in their userbase

    Comment counts arbitrarily pulled from the lower half of the front pages:

    Slashdot: 25 / 134 / 81 / 225 / 306 / 46 / 205
    Soylentnews: 45 / 24 / 55 / 55 / 116 / 27 / 24

    So, for pure uid registration count, we don't need to discuss matters. As far as active participation is concerned, that certainly is a "dent" that Dice would want to worry about if they valued their active commenters as core asset.

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