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Comment by Zecc | Hacker News Reader

I couldn't help noticing Gogs is hosted on GitHub...

  https://github.com/gogits/gogs

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I don't know how to feel about that, on the one hand it's "not using the soap you're selling" and makes you seem disingenuous about the quality of your product.

However, it is the "home of developers" right now, and they probably would prefer a low barrier to entry for people to get involved.

Many large (or aspiring) open-source projects seek to create a community of users around it, and having a lower barrier of entry to create such a community only helps the project. As you've said, GitHub provides such a low barrier.

GitLab also started out on GitHub didn't it?

Yes we did. And we still have a non-canonical mirror there https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq#canonical-source

I totally understand why people host open source projects on GitHub.com, most open source developers have accounts there so it lowers the barrier to contributing.

BTW If you host it on GitLab.com people can login with their GitHub account.

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