I think there's a big difference between just having a public repo and actually promoting it. It wasn't too long ago that I myself wasn't using version control

I think there's a big difference between just having a public repo and actually promoting it. It wasn't too long ago that I myself wasn't using version control and decided to learn Git. Someone who's just learning isn't likely to pay for a service like that until they get some experience and understand how to really use it. In the meantime they're putting up half baked projects and little experiments that are awesome to them but worthless to everyone else. Don't you remember being a beginner and thinking you've just done something cool and advanced only to find out later that what you did before was actually pretty mediocre? Now, of you're out there actually promoting something you've made it's a different story. You really shouldn't be bragging if you really feel something isn't quite ready. But then again I come back to my point about criticism. There's constructive criticism and there's overly harsh criticism. You're right,mthere should definitely be more talk and less action but we all know how we are. I've seen it a million times. A really cool project comes along and there's always those smartest-programmers-in-the-room types that have to tear it apart like its garbage instead of offering up some constructive suggestions or actually taking action. It'll probably never stop so the best we can do is try to grow thicker skin as project creators and try to be more constructive and less snarky as critics.