[bovine3dom]

> none of the features are truly needed

I think ease of contribution and discovery shouldn't be underestimated. I find it hard to believe that our little project [1] would have had 90+ contributors, of whom ~8 made very substantial contributions, if we'd self-hosted it. The project would have been far lesser without those contributions, and I probably would have abandoned it out of lack of interest.

That said, most other projects I see around have much more uneven contribution levels, with typically 100:1 ratios from the core developer to the second biggest contributor. Maybe we're just weird.

[1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/graphs/contributors

[kkarakk]

well shepherding a project is truly important if you want contributors - you have to tag issues that are good for noobs, help people with pull requests, not blow off issues that are requests for more documentation of how a module works etc etc. a lot of which i can see you're doing by looking at your issues tab.

Another sad fact of life nowadays is that github issues reduce friction but a lot of "hardcore" developers prefer email or some other offsite system that has lots of friction to people getting involved(i see this a lot in gitlab/bitbucket/sourcehut hosted projects). which means an open source noob is going to look at another project instead of getting involved with yours(again not an issue with you). for better or worse github is king here.

most open source projects don't bother and tend to rely on interest levels to keep them afloat. this works for the popular ones but tends to sink niche projects

[dotancohen]

I've nothing to add to the conversation, but I would like the opportunity to thank you for Tridactyl. It makes the web usable.