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I love GitHub and I use it for my own projects, however the increased reliance of the open-source community on GitHub worries me, because if this relationship goes sour it will be worse than what happened with SourceForge, because GitHub is much bigger with a much greater lock-in effect, because it also turned out to be a sort of social network for developers.

Many high profile projects don't even point at their own domain anymore, GitHub being their homepage, which is reckless for popular projects, given that a domain is only about $10 per year and given that hosting of static pages is essentially free.

Personally I hope that an alternative like GitLab takes off, because in the worst case scenario you can host it yourself.

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Yes, it is dangerous to lock into Github as the home page for a popular project, but I feel that github is great as far as the community is concerned, gitlab still isn't as great looking as github.

Sourceforge story was different and I hope that it was an exception rather than the norm. Almost all of my repositories are on github and my machine, no where else. It is a big lock in

It's only a lock in you've created though to be fair. And still so far as github don't pull things the same hour your machine goes down you'll have all the code.

What's githubs issue and wiki export like? Half of a project is it's backlog of that information.

Yes, I am not aware of the wiki exports and yes, it is a lock in which we got ourselves into personally.

Wiki on GitHub is a git repo. You can clone it and play with it as you'd do with any other git repo.

We still have BitBucket. Cheers.

Different name, same issues. Your comment doesn't provide anything of value regarding the issues he raised.

If you think he said "there is only GitHub", then I suggest you re-read his comment.

I used to root for BitBucket earlier because I too didn't like GitHub being treated as if it was 'The Way to Have Git On The Internet'.

However, after I started working at a place which uses Atlassian's wiki software and JIRA, I don't hold them in high regard anymore.

Now, I root for GitLab.

I got so tired with todo tools/ stuff like that, I wrote my own in Go. I don't have to worry about the changes they make to their products and it works offline!

http://github.com/thewhitetulip/Tasks

I am currently working to make it run via ajax, it'll be fun :-)

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