GitHub isn't fun anymore

Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by jdsully on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:32PM (#23547441)

A major reason open source projects use GitHub is the social network features. It really helps you build traction and get noticed. Regardless of what you may think of it the trending page does indeed drive further traffic which drives adoption.

Otherwise we'd all still be on SourceForge or migrate to something more OSS pure like Gitlab.

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:05AM (#23547651)

I don't use it for discovery though: It's just easy to jump in and contribute or open an issue when it's a common platform I am already logged into. There's low friction to jumping in.

That doesn't mean I necessarily need social media features.

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by young_unixer on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:15AM (#23547709)

We don't all migrate to gitlab mainly because Github's UI is better and because of network effects. Nothing to do with social features.

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by jdsully on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:44AM (#23548489)

The network effects come from the social features. That was the main innovation over source forge (aside from git support itself).

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Re:GitHub isn't fun anymore by clenneville on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:48AM (#23552082)

Thanks for your feedback on GitLab's UI. We're always working to make it better, so if you have specific feedback, please do share.

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