• Adanisi@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    I would hope that programmers and people inclined to do so much as submit bug reports can sign up for an account.

    User count doesn’t really matter for code hosting platforms. It’s not a social network.

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      9 months ago

      User count absolutely matters for code hosting platforms, and it absolutely is a social network. Network effect is critical and the entire premise of this article.

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        9 months ago

        The network effect in this article is seen as important for the adoption of free forges when projects choose them. But I don’t see anything about the importance of how many people use them for contributors to, well, contribute. I might have missed it though.

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          9 months ago

          They’re the exact same thing. There is no distinction that can theoretically be made.

          The reason projects are choosing GitHub over alternatives is because they know, with certainty, that they will get far less interaction with their project anywhere else.