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Re:JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup on... by terhechte on Friday December 09, 2011 @06:22AM (#3333353)
Apart from the actual takeaway here, it is interesting to see how more and more projects are moving away from Content Management Systems, custom CMS scripts, and related solutions and instead host everything on Github. This is really good, especially because Github has a hell of an interface compared to most home-baked solutions.

Another thing that comes to mind here are Jekyll, Hyde, and Toto, content management / blog engines that make it easy to host everything on Github and use it as a storage. Toto even uses Github as the main and only storage.

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Re:JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup on... by tkrajcar on Friday December 09, 2011 @03:05PM (#3335335)
Except they're still going to use WordPress, which is... a content management system.
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Re:JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup on... by skeptical on Friday December 09, 2011 @11:43AM (#3334360)
Github fanoboyism?

I don't see why that would be so good. Even if github is the best thing thing in the world after chocolate cookies.

Personally I don't like jquery plugins website, I find it clunky. Secondly, I agree that github has a nice slick interface. I still don't think the massive migration to github is a good thing. I would much prefer more diversity. Github doesn't even have a discussion/mailing list platform, I don't think that's a very positive thing for many projects, just to give an example.

But mostly I'm curios, 'specially because of their interface', what are the other reasons?

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Re:JQuery plugins site accidentally deleted - last backup on... by schrijver on Friday December 09, 2011 @12:34PM (#3334597)
I would say what’s positive is that more projects are finding ways to move away from a centralised database into a distributed, replicable system such as Git. Github provides an easy-to-use interface to Git, but this way of working is not necessarily limited to GitHub.
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