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The reason is github did a fantastic job of implementing useful features. The visual design is unmatched and they have done a great job implementing developer oriented integrations and social features.

A more federated approach to this sort of thing might have been nice, but so far nothing I have seen comes close to the value-add offered by github.

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You're sidestepping the main reason I believe it worked so well. It benefits from network effect. It is a collaborative tool and people like to have their work on there so others can collaborate with them.

That's important but I think people over-estimate it. It's both. I predict that if you analyzed the github network, you'd find many hubs are based around companies that chose to move their workflows to github based on features other than network effects. Or at least, the existing network was only one of many reasons.

As a business, we (and most other companies I know) chose github for features and performance. Nice that other open source stuff is there but doesnt matter for what we pay for.

Totally agree - though I wish they would show files > 2Mb though on the web editor.

I develop directly on github - I even make all my commits to the Master branch, as this allows me to code with a nexus 7 tablet if necessary.

So this outage was a PITA for me. However I have plan B and started up tomcat...

Saved the day!

P.S. Thanks github for the free hosting! I can't really complain .

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