On: Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo

[dijit]

It might feel like that now, but in 2011 github was just one of a bunch of code forges and at the time they were all similar in quality.

Gitorious was chosen for the meego/maemo team for example.

[petepete → dijit]

In those days GitHub probably had more eyes on it in a day then Gitorious did in a quarter.

And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform.

But you can't deny, it's always been pretty great.

[TuxSH → petepete]

> And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform.

Hardly surprising, though, social networks are prone to centralization (due to network effect), and GitHub & its competitors (anything that offers git repos + issue tracking + fork-ability, really) are social networks.

Also, GitHub offering private repos for free right after they got acquired by Microsoft helped a lot. A lot of people, myself included, were using gitlab.com for private repos at that time