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Re:Show HN: We use Github Gists to store user data by zubairov on Saturday April 21, 2012 @09:39AM (#3871715)
Thnx for your comments Jason. Indeed any 3-rd party sign-in module lower down the conversion, however, on a given stage it's intentional. We would like to speak out to developers, and to those who are familiar with basic principles of open source software. So Github account is kind of filter for now.
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Re:Show HN: We use Github Gists to store user data by JangoSteve on Saturday April 21, 2012 @11:33AM (#3872021)
I can certainly understand the sentiment, but requiring a Github account still seems arbitrary and limiting. There are lots of great open-source developers who don't use git or github.

For example, I'm a ruby developer, so yes most of the open source development I do involves Github. But even I know about (and use) projects like zip-ruby [1] on Bitbucket or redmine [2] on svn.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/winebarrel/zip-ruby/wiki/Home

[2] http://www.redmine.org/

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