Github does a lot of search engine discoverability improvements for you, if you self host, you probably have to spend that effort yourself. Very few non-GH proj

Github does a lot of search engine discoverability improvements for you, if you self host, you probably have to spend that effort yourself. Very few non-GH projects do even the minimum, page descriptions, social metainfo (description, nice preview), and that's really sad. If you do however spend a bit of that effort, you can absolutely do without GH.