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That comparison is pretty harsh and really underemphasizes how awful sourceforge was. Myspace was mostly fine, death by feature creep. Sourceforge was a flaming pile of garbage that was poorly designed, ad laden, AND silently bundled in ad/spyware to normal downloads.

A more apt comparison would be comparing Facebook to a hypothetical social media site that when you click on a thumbnail of a user's image, you get a fullsize image of something like goatse...which thankfully doesn't exist(yet).



You mean the comparison is too mild? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harsh


I read it as harsh to MySpace, because that was very unfair to MySpace imo


Oh, meant harsh to Myspace, which wasn't that bad really.




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