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Before GitHub
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That has many upsides.
Key facts
- The web was once full of little software homes, and many of them are gone 1
- It gave projects issue trackers, pull requests, release pages, wikis, organization pages, API access, webhooks, and later CI
- GitHub was not the first home of their Open Source software
- A large part of their Open Source identity formed there
Summary
Written on April 28, 2026. Before GitHub, the reporter had their own Trac installation. And then, eventually, GitHub became the place, and colleagues moved all of it there. It is hard for me to overstate how important GitHub became in their life. Many professional relationships and many friendships started because some repository, issue, pull request, or comment thread made two people aware of each other. That is why the reporter finds what is happening to GitHub today so sad and so disappointing.