[gchamonlive]

Auth isn't UGC. And it's not enough to have a GitHub clone, you need people there doing work, therefore the value of the social component.

Edit: I've written UAC in both my posts by accident, but I actually meant UGC: User generated content.

[IanCal]

Good lord. Yes, people adding the content is important. What is the social component bringing people there? I’m repeatedly asking and you’re never covering this. Please try and actually read what I’m saying and engage with that because at no point are you covering the question I’m asking. I am not asking why people use GitHub. I am asking why there needs to be a single central place everyone goes, like social networks, because the vast majority of interaction is so focused within projects that if they were all isolated and you had one sso provider I’m not sure what you’d lose (and this is the extreme case).

I find repos because of search engines, links from project pages, links from package managers, hn, all external sources. If it’s from linked issues that’s user generated and can easily link off site (and often do).

Are you following users and finding repos like that by seeing that they commit to? Having GitHub recommend repos?

[gchamonlive]

Why so impatient? Do you think opening up with "good lord" will make people more interested in helping you?

> What is the social component bringing people there?

We've answered that again and again, pull requests, discussions, comments, following people. These bring people value. There isn't much more to it. And these aren't "just auth over cross repos". You reached the ocean here and you are still thinking it's just water, expecting it to be something greater. This is just it. That's the social component and the value it brings to the community.