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Comment by alcover | Hacker News Reader

  > barrier of entry to contribute to your code

What barrier, may I ask ?

  > it's a lot harder for others to discover it.

The vast majority of stars I got was from a HN submission, not from organic discovery through GH search.

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Familiarity with the UX and conventions on that platform. Almost everyone knows how to make a PR against a GitHub repo. But some random other code hosting site? It would be a lot less familiar, and people would have to spend time making an account and figuring out how to contribute.

Even low barriers of entry can cause a big drop in user engagement.

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