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> And people still support it by uploading to GitHub.

It’s slowly, but noticeably moving from GitHub to other sites.

The network effect is hard to work against.

Migration is on my todo list, but it’s non trivial enough I’m not sure when I’ll ever have cycles to even figure out the best option. Gitlab? Self-hosted Git? Go back to SVN? A totally different platform?

Truth be told, Git is a major pain in the ass anyway and I’m very open to something else.

A classic case of perfect being the enemy of the good. The answers are Gitlab and jj, cheers.

Mercurial was better than git IMO, at least for smaller projects.

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