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by MaxBarraclough 883 days ago
> Social/collaboration features are explicitly deprioritized by design; I think this is a natural consequence of srht being built by and for lone wolf developers.

It's not the case that SourceHut treats collaboration features as out-of-scope. Drew seems to draw a bright line between social and collaboration features, and intends for SourceHut to offer solid collaboration features, but without any hint of trying to be a social network.

From an old comment of Drew's: (edit: I now see Drew's comment was replying to you yourself)

> SourceHut is designed to facilitate collaboration, of course, but it's done differently from platforms like GitHub and those that seek to emulate it. And of course it is more than a git frontend, providing tools specifically to facilitate collaboration such as mailing lists and bug trackers. SourceHut is an engineering tool, not a social network. It is designed to get your work done and then get out of your way.

> GitHub is explicitly designed like a social network, and this is a design that we reject.

(From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31963467)

> I think this is a natural consequence of srht being built by and for lone wolf developers

Built by lone wolf developers, plural?