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Who would win? The biggest "social network" for developers OR a platform by some random dude on the internet?

Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
I wouldn't be so sure of GitHub if I were you. How long has it been the biggest player? It wasn't so long ago SourceForge was dominant and look what happened to it. GitHub is beholden to their investors, and it will make decisions that benefit them at the expense of their users. Services like Pinboard thrive as some random dude on the internet. I use a business model that doesn't have the same risks to longevity that GitHub does.
- mseebach 9y ago
  Yeah, but SourceForge wasn't exactly supplanted by a random guy with a dodgy-looking domain. Crucially, there's no imperative to leave a platform just because it might be slowly dying. If it does what you need it to do, and do it well, the effort to switch is unlikely to be worth it. SourceForge is still around, and still (strangely enough) servicing some projects -- it's not like anyone got left behind because they failed to see that SF was "slowly dying" in time.
  - Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
    Well, I'm not exactly a random guy. I have a lot of involvement in open source out there plain to see, and sr.ht itself is open source so you can just run it yourself. >Crucially, there's no imperative to leave a platform just because it might be slowly dying. If it does what you need it to do, and do it well, the effort to switch is unlikely to be worth it. SourceForge is still around, and still (strangely enough) servicing some projects -- it's not like anyone got left behind because they failed to see that SF was "slowly dying" in time. SF has also been injecting adware into software hosted on it. You stay behind at the expense of everyone around you. And honestly - it's a lot easier, at least for me, to trust a person whose name and email address I know than a faceless company with interests that don't align with mine.
  - jon-wood 9y ago
    Back when it was taking off Github was a couple of guys who wanted a hosted Git service and thought others might as well.

I wouldn't be so sure of GitHub if I were you. How long has it been the biggest player? It wasn't so long ago SourceForge was dominant and look what happened to it. GitHub is beholden to their investors, and it will make decisions that benefit them at the expense of their users. Services like Pinboard thrive as some random dude on the internet. I use a business model that doesn't have the same risks to longevity that GitHub does.

mseebach 9y ago
Yeah, but SourceForge wasn't exactly supplanted by a random guy with a dodgy-looking domain. Crucially, there's no imperative to leave a platform just because it might be slowly dying. If it does what you need it to do, and do it well, the effort to switch is unlikely to be worth it. SourceForge is still around, and still (strangely enough) servicing some projects -- it's not like anyone got left behind because they failed to see that SF was "slowly dying" in time.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y ago
  Well, I'm not exactly a random guy. I have a lot of involvement in open source out there plain to see, and sr.ht itself is open source so you can just run it yourself. >Crucially, there's no imperative to leave a platform just because it might be slowly dying. If it does what you need it to do, and do it well, the effort to switch is unlikely to be worth it. SourceForge is still around, and still (strangely enough) servicing some projects -- it's not like anyone got left behind because they failed to see that SF was "slowly dying" in time. SF has also been injecting adware into software hosted on it. You stay behind at the expense of everyone around you. And honestly - it's a lot easier, at least for me, to trust a person whose name and email address I know than a faceless company with interests that don't align with mine.
- jon-wood 9y ago
  Back when it was taking off Github was a couple of guys who wanted a hosted Git service and thought others might as well.