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Re:GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open ... by modzu on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:14PM (#17241013)
well they also did some cool stuff like electron and github desktop
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Re:GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open ... by BugsJustFindMe on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:00PM (#17243267)
It's true that they also make widgets, but the proportion of people who use GitHub because of their desktop client has to be vanishingly tiny. GitHub became popular originally because of pull requests. It stays popular because of network effects that counterbalance its deficiencies (terrible search, weak bug management, short analytics window, etc).
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