[dijit]

If that's your stance then; sure: it's no longer a conversation.

It is then completely unacceptable to force people to run code on their machines. Thus JS should always be optional.

Perhaps this is not the result you intended by attempting to shut down any opinions; but now we can't talk about it. So it's concluded.

[_andrei_]

they don't force you to visit their website, your visit there IS optional

[dijit]

This is disingenuous to the point of being insulting.

Their modus operandi is to be the social-development hub of as many projects as they can, and they are successful.

Their platform has lock-in and network effects that you must acknowledge, often being the only bug-tracker available, only mechanism to submit patches and often being the only source of truth for a given repository of code.

Unless you're going to tell me that a private company can do what it likes, in which case I will reignite efforts to put FOSS on FOSS platforms. If Github wants to hold it's market position (made precarious based on their owners and fact that it's backend is closed-source) then they will have to keep good-will.