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fmajid
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A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge
WordPress, in a moment of weakness in 2005 started pushing shady SEO advertising on WP.org. I self-hosted my blog so wasn’t directly affected but I noticed before the story broke in the tech press:
https://waxy.org/2005/03/wordpress_websi/
https://ma.tt/2005/04/a-response/
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https://waxy.org/2005/03/wordpress_websi/
https://ma.tt/2005/04/a-response/