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Re:Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket by simias on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @11:42AM (#4632152)
I think one of the reasons for github's success is that it put a lot of emphasis on the "social" part of the website. At some point using github was "cool" and I think there's been a massive network effect. It's sourceforge meets facebook.

I sometimes wonder if github's not headed to become the new reddit. At least if you look at some of the comment threads on the site it looks that way [1].

Bitbucket feels more like an old school "code hosting" service. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[1] https://github.com/visionmedia/n/issues/86

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Re:Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket by icelancer on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @03:47PM (#4633575)
>I sometimes wonder if github's not headed to become the new reddit. At least if you look at some of the comment threads on the site it looks that way [1].

You mean the new old reddit, I presume? Where reddit was a tech-dominant site rather than a news aggregator / spam site?

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