I think you’re very right about this. To me: - It’s important that my repos show up in GitHub search (self promotion, essentially). - In the ‘other direction’,

I think you’re very right about this. To me: - It’s important that my repos show up in GitHub search (self promotion, essentially). - In the ‘other direction’, Github search feels fairly comprehensive. I don’t feel the need to search for things elsewhere. This is obviously rather self-reinforcing. For an independent index to be successful it needs to be _better than GitHub search_ ad searching GitHub, which seems challenging. It doesn’t help that if I see results that seem to be indexing GitHub in a Google search nowadays, I assume they’re SEO spam. Two other things I find important: - It’s easy to fork repositories. - It’s easy to contribute back to repositories I’ve forked. Gitea really should be focusing on making it a first class UI concept to fork got repos from elsewhere. I know they’re also working on ‘federated’ pull requests - though making them _to Github repos_ seems like a more challenging idea, and is probably just as important.