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by Nick-Craver 3698 days ago
Yep...for the on-premise reasons listed in the article. Once upon a time a lot of projects were on Mercurial, hosted by Kiln. The Stack Overflow repo specifically has always been on an internal Mercurial and then Git server. Originally this was for speed, now it's for speed and reliability/dependency reduction.