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by bbkane 927 days ago
I think it also needs to be said that GitHub has helped countless open source projects grow- Git Hosting, wiki hosting, issues, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, a nice API...

There are LOTS of reasons to host your open source project on GitHub
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pjmlp 927 days ago
Sourceforge used to have similar reasons.
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ApolloFortyNine 927 days ago
And if github truly goes to shit like source forge did people will just move to a clone.

But if you look at any source forge repo right now, I think you'll see github as a long way to fall before it gets that bad.

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pjmlp 927 days ago
The tragedy here is that folks don't learn.
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arp242 927 days ago
Learn what, exactly? Anything can go sour, including community-run open source stuff. There is never any guarantee for the future about anything.
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pjmlp 927 days ago
Yet many expect that everything always stay the same, and flock like sheeps to the next one that sells themselves as otherwise.
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anthk 927 days ago
The are more reasons to run away from GH and just set a locally managed SourceHut instance for sanity and interop.
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