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Before GitHub
The author reflects on the history of open source infrastructure before GitHub, including self-hosted solutions like Trac and Subversion, and discusses GitHub's rise as a centralized hub that made project creation and discovery easy. They express concern over GitHub's recent decline due to product instability and loss of community focus, while also acknowledging its role as an important archive. The piece considers the potential return to decentralized forges and the need for a dedicated, well-funded open source archive.
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8 tagsopen sourceversion controlsource hostingdecentralizationsoftware archiveproject maintenancecommunitydependency management
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