> “Flagged”? So this is how you call “disposing of someone” in a “politically correct” manner nowadays — you “flag” them. “The United States flagged 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II”.

Whoa!! What an astonishing comparison!

Go host your software on gitlab, IPFS, or some other service and please don't bother comparing your experience hosting software with forced internment.

> Remind me, GitHub, since when are you Ordnungspolizei? Who exactly granted you the authority to interrogate and police regular people?

B...b...but it's their server, their disk space. You granted them the authority by showing up at their doorstep asking for the service.

GitHub has monopolized open source development. The likelihood of your software being discovered, used or contributed to goes to zero as soon as you host it anywhere but GitHub.

I have never discovered software via github and I doubt that many do quite frankly. People discover software via social channels. People who have heard of a piece of software and want to learn more about it usually do so via their search engine not directly via github.

Having discovered it account creation DOES present a barrier to entry for those that want to contribute but nowadays many such services allow one to sign in with a social service. For example Gitlab.com allows one to sign on with google, twitter, salesforce, github, or bitbucket. Likely reducing the barrier to account creation to 30 seconds via oauth or 1 minute to create a new account via email.

I don't find it credible that people who want to contribute hours to hundreds of hours of work will be liable to be put off by the need to do half a minute of work.

I'm often pissed some obscure piece of software doesn't seem to exist, contemplate writing it myself, decide to append github to the search query and find someone who already wrote it.

Litterally a day ago that's how I found https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice