What does a self-hosted GitLab instance have to do with GitHub?

The question is whether or not GitHub is losing market/mind share and if we will see a slow migration away from GitHub towards GitLab (self hosted or otherwise).

No system is perfect. And at some point the incremental improvements from GitLab will be appealing to a larger set of projects. If enough of the “cool” projects move to GitLab, we will see a SourceForge like shift away.

My money long term is on https://sr.ht . I largely kid — sourcehut doesn’t seem like it is really designed for the masses. And I think that’s the point. But the more I use something like Sourcehut, the more I appreciate the minimal GUI.

Some Wine components were/are hosted on Github.

A long time ago.

Sourceforge has been more or less abandoned/forgotten for the past five years. Some projects continue to stick to it though due to inertia and laziness.

You interpreted their point very charitably.

I think they knew that sourceforge has been effectively dead and is saying here that GitHub is following in it's footsteps.

I don't agree with that, but i believe that was the point.

I'm going to wager not. I think this is a classic case of something making it to HN or the HN crowd finding it interesting, but in reality, GitHub is probably doing more than fine and continuing to grow.

Or I'm completely wrong.

Between hosted premium GitHub, and self hosted GitHub enterprise, I think they're doing fine.

Why do you think that?

Nope