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While not directly related to this post, I feel like it's a good time to point out how great Github is. Patrick hosts everything himself (for the SEO benefit I would assume) which is fine, but it means we can't post issues, watch the abingo repo for changes like this, submit pull requests, etc. I can't imagine that many people searching for ABingo turn into BCC customers so is the SEO benefit at the expense of a great abingo community really worth it?

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The SEO benefit from A/Bingo is not that I sell $30 of software to Rails hackers. The benefit is that A/Bingo convinces, without loss of generality, DHH to link to bingocardcreator.com despite him not having any interest in BCC. The fraction of DHH's substantial trust which rubs off on my domain as a result helps me rank for unrelated searches by elementary school English teachers. They pay my rent.

I don't feel that I owe "the abingo community" more than the millions I already made their for-profit companies while working for free, but if they really want to send pull requests, they can take the MIT licensed source code, put it in their own Github, and write me an email saying "Hey, pull my stuff", which happens every once in a while. Github did not invent requesting pulls.

they can take the MIT licensed source code, put it in their own Github, and write me an email saying "Hey, pull my stuff", which happens every once in a while. Github did not invent requesting pulls.

You don't even need to put it on GitHub to send patch. Git has alright support for easily turning changes to a local branch into an easy to email format, cf. http://book.git-scm.com/5_git_and_email.html

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