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Git wouldn't be mainstream without GitHub though.

• dijit 1y ago
  It might feel like that now, but in 2011 github was just one of a bunch of code forges and at the time they were all similar in quality. Gitorious was chosen for the meego/maemo team for example.
  • petepete 1y ago
    In those days GitHub probably had more eyes on it in a day then Gitorious did in a quarter. And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform. But you can't deny, it's always been pretty great.
    • TuxSH 1y ago
      > And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform. Hardly surprising, though, social networks are prone to centralization (due to network effect), and GitHub & its competitors (anything that offers git repos + issue tracking + fork-ability, really) are social networks. Also, GitHub offering private repos for free right after they got acquired by Microsoft helped a lot. A lot of people, myself included, were using gitlab.com for private repos at that time