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Having more than one option should be generally seen as a good thing. I don’t think an open source project needs to justify its existence if you dont want to take the time to learn what it actually does

Given that Github is now owned by Microsoft who can pull your identity or shut down your repository on a whim, being an open source GitHub issues is plenty enough, no?

Having a self-hosted solution inside company's security perimeter is nice by itself. This is why I use GitLab on all my projects since I don't remember when. Also, the GitHub way of doing things is not universally liked, so having an alternative is always welcome.

I think you answered your own question but it does a lot more than that. Did you check out the features page?

I'd like to hear from someone who has used it.

I used Phabricator a long time ago before we eventually moved to Github due to a handful of blocking issues with the `arc` tool, and CircleCI only supporting Github (this was even pre-circle 2.0 days).

I really, really liked Phabricator and would happily have replaced Jira + Confluence + GitHub with Phorge if I was starting somewhere from scratch.