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Github's life blood is not just the enterprise side, but its free offering, the community and the huge network effect it has over the open source community. No
by jsnk 11y ago
Github's life blood is not just the enterprise side, but its free offering, the community and the huge network effect it has over the open source community.
No one is sticking with Github because it has particularly good UI or functionality. Github raw functionality is completely undifferentiable from its competitors such as gitlab and bitbucket. People stay on github because of the number of developers who uses it, star counts, fork counts and reputation system it has built over time.
- jkroso 11y agoIf either of its competitors were even a little better I would switch.
- btown 11y agoAnd this fact is why Github can't afford not to prioritize "Dear Github." If there's one thing we've learned from social media, it's that network effect makes you strong as an incumbent, but it doesn't make you immortal. All it takes is one upstart that just feels "perfect" in terms of UX to cut into your bottom line. (Though I suppose you can acquire them...)
- pekk 11y agoTruthfully, lot of people just don't know how to use Bitbucket and aren't really aware of Gitlab. It isn't even entirely about Github being better in social terms, it's just that people aren't strongly aware of their alternatives.
- codexon 11y agoBitbucket is really far behind. You can't search the code inside a repository, and the back and forward buttons on the browser don't even work correctly. Can't view a single file history either and it is probably missing a lot more.