Comment by beshrkayali

> Also, I don't want to have to maintain an account on a Gitlab (or equivalent) server for every project. Anyone who has enough interest to troll through issues on a project or open an issue already has a Github account. It lowers the barrier to entry for your project.

There are multiple ways to go around this, OpenID, Mozilla Persona, or any third-party authenticator.

> The final thing is just name recognition. People trust code from Github. They shouldnt, but a Github URL legitimizes your project more than git.abrakadoodle.io.

I see this more of an additional reason for big projects to move away from Github. It gives unwarranted legitimacy to everything on the platform.