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I don't get the analogy. Also mind: Even if pull requests are off somebody else might emerge and maintain a fork, which becomes more successful. Maybe even goi

• toyg 6y ago
  The whole business model of GitHub is to get you to use its proprietary social features, so that 1) you get locked-in, and 2) you generate and maintain adoption virality. The minute they become just another dumb git host, their relevance disappears.
  • sofixa 6y ago
    > 1) you get locked-in, How do you get locked in? PRs, once merged, are just regular commits. You lose the history and discussion around the PR itself, but that's all, but it's not like any alternative allows you to migrate ( e.g. the abomination that is using email for git collaboration is stuck in unreadable, unsearchable, unindexed emails somewhere; you can copy the data pretty much the same way as from GitHub, but both are unexploitable without a lot of tinkering / adaptation)