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Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by gravypod on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:24PM (#26848681)
For many users having an easy to browse/navigate interface is a good selling point.

This reminds me of this post about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Re:GitHub reinstated youtube-dl but restoring forks is appar... by simcop2387 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @09:27PM (#26848996)
Along with that, gogs and gitea support automatic mirroring of repositories. I know that's just a crontab wmtry away but it's got a nice ui on top of it. It also then gives you a place to push private repos and other stuff you don't want to have publically hosted.