I can't remember the last time I downloaded from Sourceforge. I wouldn't ever trust them again unless they basically started from scratch and were ran by completely different people.

Sourceforge and Slashdot were bought out 4 years ago: https://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-acquisition-and-fut... - to my knowledge they've not done anything shady since.

I stopped reading slashdot after they got rid of the Bill Gates borg pic. I feel that was the moment it lost its soul. I’ve been on Hacker News since.

I think that’s why the sentence immediately after the one including “we own and operate Slashdot and SourceForge” says “We didn't always own SourceForge, but we acquired it in 2016, and [immediately began improving](https://www.pcworld.com/article/3032490/new-sourceforge-owne...), and have since [come a long way](https://sourceforge.net/blog/brief-history-sourceforge-look-...) in restoring and growing one of the most important resources in open source.” (links reformatted)

I can. The UX is as crappy as ever.

I didn't understand, at the time of its last major refresh which was a fair while ago now, how SourceForge could be so resource intensive — all it needed to do was show links to download files. That was it.

Instead, it was packed to the rafters with Flash ads; the layout was bloated with unnecessarily large, unoptimised graphic files; and, the most prominent button to download didn't actually do that — it would take you to a page where you could select a server to download. That's your job, SourceForge, not mine.

I think that design comes from another era. All I've seen happen to it since is cutting out some of the graphics, changing the colour scheme a little, and switching to HTML ads. It's still from another era.

Unfortunately the era of bloated ads and unoptimized graphics never passed.

Unfortunately, it looks a bit like a shady warez site and I do find it somewhat non-intuitive (at least compared to github).

I think maybe the last part is true, but maybe not the first part.

is there any project of note still using sourceforge?

Veracrypt I believe

KeePass

Alas, Slashdot has lost my interest. It was more meaty back in the day. Or maybe it's I am changing.. IDK.

It's not just you.

I've been reading since the end of last century, and I still go there regularly. It used to be the case that every day there were at least a few posts interesting posts there, that I hadn't yet read somewhere else. It kinda was my portal in the world of technology news. That's not the case anymore: the posts now are mostly not interesting (to me, at least), and mostly not exactly news anymore.

What I used to value about Slashdot were mostly the comments (much like here on Hacker News). Yes, there was lots of spam, but when reading on level 2 or 3 much of the comments did add value to the story. These days the comments have decreased very significantly, both in quantity and quality.

Slashdot really used to be much more meaty, as you say. These days I get my tech news from Ars Technica, Hacker News, LWN, and some Reddit subs.

CmdrTaco FTW!

Typo! I think you mean Cowboy Neal! ;-)

Natalie Portman, Hot Grits, Beowulf clusters.

You must be new here.

I, for one, welcome our Y Combinator overlords.

...but only in Soviet Russia, you insensitive clod!

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these comments.

No pics. Less title space than on reddit. Lame.

It seems to still work. I haven't really been a user since 2012 (although I just checked and my password from then still works..) Right now it seems to have similar stories to here.

Though if you scroll to the bottom you see the click bait type ads prevalent to the modern web

Slashdot comments are still pretty good, better than HN if you have the stomach for it.