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Re:GitHub CLI is now in beta by Naac on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @06:41PM (#22313988)
The pessimist in me would say that Github doesn't have issues as git repos because it makes migrations off of their platform more difficult. Hence making vendor lock-in stronger.

The optimist would say limiting contributions to issues on web platform made the formatting ( markdown ) consistent. So that linking back to issues and commits was more standard, and therefore made Github Issues a nice tool to use over the competition at the time.

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Re:GitHub CLI is now in beta by sc11 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:20PM (#22314523)
You can respond to issues by email. The formatting is already not consistent.
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Re:GitHub CLI is now in beta by dotancohen on Thursday February 13, 2020 @07:45AM (#22317272) 

    > formatting ( markdown ) consistent.
This actually is not a good argument because Markdown is specifically designed to be readable as plain text.
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Re:GitHub CLI is now in beta by Naac on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:43PM (#22324011)
That's fair. I was really looking at the bottom of the barrel for reasons github would do this, other than vendor lock-in.
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