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The newish (this news is not that new) owners completely rejected the adware/malware junk, so that's long gone.

Unfortunately for the new owners trust, once lost, is hard to regain.

When setting up a new PC last week, I had to spend a non-trivial amount of time searching for a non-SourceForge source for a particular tool. SourceForge was one a trusted source, but because of their bad behavior I have to assume they are up to no good and avoid them like the plague.

And that issue aside, the Sourceforge platform has been at a standstill for many years. The features they provide on their site (discussion, wiki, bug tracking) are all incredibly primitive, and have seen no meaningful improvements during the last decade or more. I have never seen a significant open-source project using any of Sourceforge's features beyond artifact hosting (i.e, release downloads) and occasionally source code management.

Proguard tracks its issues there.

Honestly that is a reason to not use proguard. That is how bad SFs reputation is.

You know any professional Android developer who doesn't use Proguard?

I still will never use them again for any purpose. Better alternatives exist.

Is there any compelling reason to ever use them again? They are a dinosaur with a history of herpes

Hahaha you made my day, so true

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