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It was the same with SourceForge. It worked great (for its time). You get stuff for free. It's convenient.

And then slowly they started changing policy, closing the source, adding ads to the platform, .. then one day you realized you've locked yourself into their ecosystem. It's a bunch of work to move away. It will be worse with Github since they bolted so many things on top of Git.



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