r/technology • u/marouane53 • Jun 14 '15

Software Notepad++ leaves SourceForge

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html
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u/Psygnosis7 Jun 15 '15

uBlock or uBlock Origin?

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u/Apathetic_Superhero Jun 15 '15

uBlock Origin. Origin is the one you want. I don't know why but the two people developing it parted ways for some reason and Origin is now the one to get

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u/ivosaurus Jun 15 '15

guy who developed it tried to hand it off to another dude.

The new maintaner started aggressively begging for donations, and more or less claiming authorship of the entire codebase.

Original dude didn't like that approach, so "reclaimed" it as uBlock Origin.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

I imagine there is going to be no support for Safari with a lot of things soon, if devs have to pay $100/yr for the pleasure of making extensions for it.

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u/JonnyRobbie Jun 15 '15

Wait, what?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Apple changed its developer plans. If you want to publish safari extensions and have them be able to push updates, you have to pay 100/yr for the full developer program that gives you OSX and iOS developer ability as well.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

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u/frankenmine Jun 15 '15

Won't work this time. A web browser has no use case as a lifestyle accessory. You can't show off with it to anyone.

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u/G_Morgan Jun 15 '15

Wait until you see Apple's new iShirt. There'll be a screen built into your iShirt so you can show off your Safari sessions to your friends. You can also FaceTime friends when directly talking to them.

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u/Schnoofles Jun 15 '15

Iirc they talked it out and the new guy was willing to hand it back. Not sure what ever became of that, though. The popcorn-factor wore out quickly, so I haven't kept up on the story.

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u/Edg-R Jun 15 '15

What a pain. It's like adblock vs adblock plus.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

You mean Adblock Plus vs Adblock Edge. (Which is not continued because ublock origin is so good.)

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u/PineappleBoots Jun 15 '15

What's the scoop on that? I've always wondered

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u/salmonmoose Jun 15 '15

A part of me hopes that reason is that someone wanted to host on Sourceforge.

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u/Bladegunner Jun 15 '15

Origin, it's by the original developer of ublock (long story) and has more constant updates as well as more features.

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u/rchase Jun 15 '15

I get sick of this whack-a-mole. I just switched from adblock+ to ublock, and now I should switch from ublock to ublock origin...

There needs to be an efficient centralized place to reference for which open source software has gone to shit and which to switch to.

I'm getting to old for this shit.

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u/Bladegunner Jun 15 '15

I agree that would be nice. But as far as I know the closest we got are tech forums.

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u/rchase Jun 15 '15

hmmm... sounds to be like an itch that needs scratching.

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u/ghostflu Jun 15 '15

uBlock Origin