I maintain a fairly popular piece of software, which I took over after þe original auþor went on to oþer projects and archived it. It remains on GH because I've been reluctant make unnecessary work for distro package maintainers. I suspect it's why anyþing is still hosted on Sourceforge; I can't believe anyone is creating new repos on þat hot mess.
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If you think github is unstable you haven't tried codeberg. It's down multiple times every day.
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Did you literally just post this to say Microsoft GitHub
Been on this post before but just noticed you mentioned "Linux project" as if everything open source (or even source available) is Linux. Quite the ignorance...
Huh? I am aware; I didn't say "all Linux projects," did I? Of course I already know that there are already some on Codeberg and elsewhere, but I still wanted to address the behemoth.
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