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Agree - after they started bundling adware in downloads (2013ish?), all the decent projects seemed to move to github en masse.
Those projects that stayed were mostly already stagnant, or the maintainers didn't use git and didn't want to learn, or had some other reason that allowed them to accept advertising on their work.
It was bought out and cleaned up a few years ago. It's legit again now, though I don't think it'll ever really recover from that fiasco.