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by gkya
3813 days ago
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The "community" model of github is like that of an online strategy game, it's based on bragging about numbers. Stars, commits, followers. It is the illness that all modern things have... So, while I hold that a demise of Github would have a huge impact on the community, I am not holding that such impact would end up bad for it. In fact, if the communities switched away from such technology, it'd be better for the open source. We'd focus better on developing our projects and wouldn't be distracted by the stargazing etc. |
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I don't care about any of those things and I think that that goes for the majority of contributors to github open source projects. What does matter is the number of contributors to a project and how involved they are, that's a useful metric.