The HN community at some point decided to collectively turn on GitHub, because of some incident where (choose your own adventure: someone at GitHub was accident

The HN community at some point decided to collectively turn on GitHub, because of some incident where (choose your own adventure: someone at GitHub was accidentally trying to help someone who wasn't white/male/heterosexual OR they're too busy waging identity wars to actually work OR someone with the right intentions definitely went too far, actual damage was limited, but it's the type of issue that people remember forever) I think they collective criticism has long ago become unfair. Two reasons: – The OSS community is currently working incredibly well. It's innovative, productive, inclusive, and the quality is excellent. Github is responsible for a large chunk of this development. Go check out sourceforge to get an idea of how it used to be. Seriously – it's like David Foster Wallace's Fish/Water metaphor: we don't know how good we have it, because there's no point of reference to compare it too. It's also quite obvious that GitLab profits from the conceptual work done at GitHub. I'm not advocating that there should be any protection for software concepts, screen layouts etc. But I like to at least acknowledge where good ideas originated, and GitHub has had quite a few (once again: it's easy to forget after getting used to it). I also had the experience that GL was dog-slow when I tried it. That probably changed, or I really couldn't understand anybody using it.