I wonder how many of the HN readers don&#x27;t remember how amazing sourceforge used to be. It was github before there was github. Easy, solid, project hosting for open source projects when that was often the main barrier to a good project getting more widely known.<p>I think it&#x27;s one of the earlier examples of why &quot;grow userbase now, figure out how to monetize it later&quot; can be a bad idea. There was a time when (perhaps) a majority of open source projects were hosted on sourceforge, and I think they assumed that that would just translate to profit (or sustainability) eventually. When that didn&#x27;t happen, and then they had to compete with Google Code, it began the slide down the slippery slope to the spam-infested site that it is today.<p>I hope that&#x27;s changing. We need more options for hosting software projects, we can&#x27;t rely on github being benevolent forever.