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Yeah, I said that first thing. It's right but it misses the point. Being VC backed isn't a deciding factor for adopting a forge. It's the community that drives
by gchamonlive 1y ago
Yeah, I said that first thing. It's right but it misses the point.
Being VC backed isn't a deciding factor for adopting a forge. It's the community that drives adoption.
> I don’t really see GitHub as a whole as a community.
It's basically a social network on top of a source code forge. You have a profile that is individually identifiable, you can open issues and contribute to discussions on pull requests. All this can be tracked back to every individual while they collaborate and make connections while they contribute to each other. How is this not a community?
- layer8 1y ago> Being VC backed isn't a deciding factor for adopting a forge. It's the community that drives adoption. OP is arguing that VC should be a deciding factor. The “community” wouldn’t exist if people had made that a deciding factor. A social network is not a community. It may contain many communities. GitHub has communities around projects. But GitHub as a whole isn’t a community.
- gchamonlive 1y agoAh yes, we agree. GH itself enables many communities to emerge but it itself isn't a community.