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If anyone is interested in building a competitor to GitHub based on mercurial, please reach out. Email in bio.

There is heptaood, https://heptapod.net/, a friendly fork of gitlab that supports mercurial. PyPy and others are using the free instance at https://foss.heptapod.net/public

Bitbucket dropped support due to to few people using it. Might be better to be agnostic about client tools?

Lack of support is exactly why a focus on mercurial is a good idea. It's a clear (and arguably superior) differentiator to all git based tools.

I fought on that hill for a while.