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This is a great gift to the community, but I really wish it would be hosted where the community is active. It seems like a lot of people will miss out because t
by Xeoncross 4y ago
This is a great gift to the community, but I really wish it would be hosted where the community is active. It seems like a lot of people will miss out because they won't be able to discover this.
I find a lot of projects because I follow people on github that star or fork really neat projects. I download projects from bitbucket, gitlab, and other self-hosted instances.
I don't know that I've ever contributed a PR back as it's just a more friction-prone process. However, I've opened hundreds of PR's and Issues on github because it's already a part of my daily process.
Thanks again
- robertlagrant 4y agoThinking that a community lives in a git provider is a bad idea. It shouldn't matter who hosts a git instance, and I would argue it's better to fight for diversity here.
- Xeoncross 4y agoIt might be better to fight for diversity, but I was pointing out the actuality of it all. Networks effects are real, and this isn't the project I want to see die because of it.
- robertlagrant 4y agoI don't really understand this. Is there much more to it than a new login in terms of network effects?
- Xeoncross 4y agoSo, github is the daily workflow for many people. You're in it, your around it, your using it. It's kind of the same as out-of-sight, out-of-mind. If I want to, I can signup for yet another site and do git-things with this codebase, but I have to change my daily process to include a one-off change to a new location. There are real costs with this mental flow change.
- robertlagrant 4y agoI don't really see the downside. The providers seem pretty similar, and I can have more than one tab open on my browser. But thanks for the explanation; I don't feel it myself but it's good to know!