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Re:Slack was experiencing an outage by Zababa on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:09PM (#27225676)
Github is really great for discoverability and the open source ecosystem, but I agree that depending on it for issues, pull requests, releases and the like is a bit sad for decentralization.

I don't really know the solution. I know Fossil [1] has bug tracking, wiki, forum and now even a chat, but I've never used it and use Github instead. Maybe adding issues and things like that to git itself would be a solution? I don't know what's the percentage of people using git the "Github" way (with at least issues intergrated into it) but if it's really high maybe it's time for git to follow usage?

[1]: https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

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Re:Slack was experiencing an outage by blacktriangle on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:30PM (#27256286)
Honest question: how often do you discover a project on GitHub? For me the answer is never. It's not like it has an interface for searching or browsing in any meaningful way. Usually you do a web search for some appropriate terms, find the project's main site, which will then have a GitHub link.

There is no "people who imported this package also imported..." type functionality, and I don't think it would be useful if there was.

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