Comment by tom_mellior
5 years ago
I have no skin in this game, but I find that "all will be better without Github" is a reasonable short approximation of your "Ditch the 'Hub, its userbase, and what is considered "best practice" there, and then many of these problems get dialed back a lot.".
You have explained your criticism of GitHub, and I agree that it should have done things differently from the beginning. Still, your proposed solution for users is literally to "Ditch the 'Hub", promising that "many of these problems get dialed back a lot". It's really not a far stretch to "all will be better without Github".
> Still, your proposed solution for users is literally to "Ditch the 'Hub", promising that "many of these problems get dialed back a lot".
This is accurate. Let's let that be the place we stay.
> I find that "all will be better without Github" is a reasonable short approximation [...]
Well I don't, and it's my position, isn't it? It's not accurate. I don't think that "all will be better without GitHub"—and what's more is that I practice the "without GitHub" part; I have the firsthand experience to be able to say it's not true, so I wouldn't try to tell anyone that it is—and I didn't. I'm responsible for my own ideas, not ones imagined upon me.
Moreover, if I argue that A and B are not equivalent and that I prefer deal with A in its original form and not B, and you argue that they are equivalent, it's not rational for either party to insist that we deal with B in place of A. So let's not.