SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold

jeremy · 01-29-2016, 10:58 AM

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SourceForge Media, LLC, a subsidiary of BIZX, LLC (BIZX), one of the fastest growing privately held web media companies in the United States, announced today the closing of the acquisition of Slashdot Media and its properties SourceForge.net and Slashdot.org from DHI Group, Inc.

"The acquisition of Slashdot Media, the global leaders in professional technology communities, through our subsidiary SourceForge Media, augments our growing portfolio of information technology sites. This acquisition is a continuation of our efforts to position ourselves as the leading provider of technology news and communities, open source software developer and distribution tools, and consumer and business buying guides available on the web," explains Roger Sheppard, President of BIZX, LLC.

"I am excited to be leading future strategy for two of the most iconic technology sites on the web. With a combined monthly average of over 30 million unique visitors and 150 million downloads, SourceForge.net and Slashdot.org are leaders in their fields," explains Logan Abbott, President of SourceForge Media, LLC. "We will improve and accelerate development of useful open source software developer tools on SourceForge in addition to rekindling the original spirit of open source that made SourceForge great. We plan to keep Slashdot positioned as the best technology-centric news and discussion site on the web."

Press Release...

Do any LQ members regularly use SourceForge or Slashdot?

--jeremy

GazL · 01-29-2016, 03:30 PM

Used to go to slashdot multiple times a day in the early days, but it started going downhill some years back and never recovered. Haven't used it in a long, long time.

I still pull sources from sourceforge from time to time, but only when the project has no alternative distribution point. "Trust" has well and truly been lost by sourceforge, I don't see them getting it back easily, or even 'ever' actually.

boethius · 01-29-2016, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

Do any LQ members regularly use SourceForge or Slashdot?
--jeremy

There's still many decent OSS projects hosted at SourceForge, but Slashdot was headed toward irrelevance long ago. CmdrTaco hasn't been involved for what at least 10 years now?

These are most certainly investment groups picking over the carcass, milking whatever value (i.e., ad revenue) they can wring out of the sheer hit numbers the sites still get. It's happened with many of the once-great Web 1.0 Internet "properties" (AOL, Myspace, even Yahoo now to a degree).

I personally haven't consulted /. for at least 10 years myself. It was Digg for a while now it's Imgur, maybe Reddit occasionally and Twitter, where I can tune my news feed any way I like.

It had its run for sure and I'm sure CmdrTaco walked away smelling pretty good. Now it's a bygone relic for sure.

I suspect the Internet has innumerable once-hot sites that have since fallen into a kind of virtual ramshackle disrepair - and will no doubt have many many many more as we head into 20+ years of broad commercial use of the Internet.

dugan · 02-01-2016, 11:27 AM

I stopped looking at Slashdot (intentionally) over half a decade ago. I look at Sourceforge if projects that I need to look at are hosted there.

Myk267 · 02-01-2016, 08:31 PM

It's amazing how long Slashdot has been around for. I remember one of my childhood friends telling me about a website that was "slashdot dot dot com" back in elementary school.

I think /. lost it's soul sometime after it got sold the first time. Or maybe when it grew rounded corners. Either works for me.

I visit sourceforge now and again, usually to grab software for my Windows machines. I think they're the only ones providing binary downloads now?