[santiagobasulto]

#off-topic

These are signs of high growth markets, and how counter-intuitive the exponential growth of the internet has been.

At the beginning we had Github. And that was enough. Then we had Gitlab, and most of us wondered: "who are these crazy dudes that want to compete with Github?". They were absolutely right, and the market grew so big that they found their own space.

Now, more alternatives keep appearing (like OP's).

It happened the same with Slack or Zoom. When Slack/Zoom came out I thought: who would want to compete with (Skype,hipchat)/(Google Meet, etc). But the markets grew a lot and there was room for everybody.

I guess I'm not very smart about business :')

Best of luck OP!

[KingOfCoders]

In the beginning we had the VMS versioning file system [1] (well I had you might be older ;-) And that was enough. Then we got RCS. Then CVS. Then we got SourceForge. And that was enough. Then we got Git!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11 <3

[techdragon]

To this day I still wish many of the VMS innovations hadn’t remained walled off. Files-11 was a brilliant thing.

[daxelrod]

I feel the same way about logicals. For those unfamiliar, the OS had a distributed hierarchical key-value store like etcd or zookeeper built in, years earlier than these technologies.

[varispeed]

Any business that grows eventually gets taken over by shareholders and their goals of maximising profits so they can get their dividends or other benefits. They think their product has become invincible and nothing could sink it. Then when they think it actually might sink they double down on extracting profits. This strategy is always against the users of the product, so eventually they get tired of it a seek for an alternative. Then they find an alternative, it grows... and cycle repeats...

[selfhoster11]

It's a sign that GitHub and GitLab are both too heavy-weight for what people want out of them, more than anything. It certainly has been this way with Gogs/Gitea.