Maybe I’m the weird one, but I’ve never cared about GitHub stars.
The real GitHub lock in has never been the code, that’s the fungible part. It’s the issues and discussions and everything else not included in a git clone.
Github has been the best example of a brilliant UI, presenting a large database of code for easy browsing and consumption, withoutrequiringjavascript.
That was/is its killer feature. This is what locks me in.
Github has deteriorated since the takeover, to be sure. I would estimate its noscript usability to have regressed from 95% to maybe 80% today. The Ruby-on-Rails backend services have faltered a bit. Markdown files in the repo tree are no longer auto-converted by the server into html, but the main readme still works.
Have you ever visited a Gitlab project with javascript turned off? Worthless!
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 21.4 ms ] threadThe real GitHub lock in has never been the code, that’s the fungible part. It’s the issues and discussions and everything else not included in a git clone.
Stars can be faked and botted. It is not the lock in.
The lock in is the distribution of GitHub, (issues, outside contributions, sponsors, etc)
Github has been the best example of a brilliant UI, presenting a large database of code for easy browsing and consumption, without requiring javascript.
That was/is its killer feature. This is what locks me in.
Github has deteriorated since the takeover, to be sure. I would estimate its noscript usability to have regressed from 95% to maybe 80% today. The Ruby-on-Rails backend services have faltered a bit. Markdown files in the repo tree are no longer auto-converted by the server into html, but the main readme still works.
Have you ever visited a Gitlab project with javascript turned off? Worthless!