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A major reason open source projects use GitHub is the social network features. It really helps you build traction and get noticed. Regardless of what you may
by jdsully 6y ago
A major reason open source projects use GitHub is the social network features. It really helps you build traction and get noticed. Regardless of what you may think of it the trending page does indeed drive further traffic which drives adoption.
Otherwise we'd all still be on SourceForge or migrate to something more OSS pure like Gitlab.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoI don't use it for discovery though: It's just easy to jump in and contribute or open an issue when it's a common platform I am already logged into. There's low friction to jumping in. That doesn't mean I necessarily need social media features.
- young_unixer 6y agoWe don't all migrate to gitlab mainly because Github's UI is better and because of network effects. Nothing to do with social features.
- jdsully 6y agoThe network effects come from the social features. That was the main innovation over source forge (aside from git support itself).
- clenneville 6y agoThanks for your feedback on GitLab's UI. We're always working to make it better, so if you have specific feedback, please do share.