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But it requires feature expansion on the scale of github, and a perpetual decline and ignorance of the community on the parts of the current host for years for that kind of transition to happen naturally.

That, and github has centralized development to a degree that sourceforge or gcode in 2008 could only dream of. It not only obsoleted other hosting solutions but also brought millions of developers into these kinds of development ecosystems whom used to just use forums or their own personal websites to host their projects.




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