[MonkeyClub]

> You don't need hosting to use git.

This, 100%.

Git is useful for all your textual versioning needs - but your friends don't really need access to all your git repos.

The whole idea of putting your whole life on GitHub is a dev's equivalent of putting all your life on Facebook - an excellent idea, as far as Microsoft and Facebook are concerned. If you can't sell ads to coders, then perhaps you can sell them recycled code.

But yeah perhaps I'm hatin' :)

Speaking of GH alternatives, though, the Tildeverse has https://tildegit.org/ https://tildegit.org/.

[junon]

Except for when GH wasn't owned by Microsoft for almost a decade...

[xtracto]

The problem with that is that at that time GH was surviving with VC money. That money entered with the promise that at some point GH would monetize their users. The "paid account" model wasn't enough for them, And now that Microsoft owns them it's also not enough. They've found another way to monetize all that code.

It surprises me though that Microsoft hasn't added a Stack overflow like panel to github. More. People are jumping between GH for the code AZ md StackOverflow for the support.