[dwmbt]

perhaps anecdotal but gh's newer features have actually noticeably increased my productivity. i don't particularly enjoy slack, so i have all but mentioned notifs off - i maintain several of our open source libraries and we've created a project on gh to track issues across all of these repos:

    - the kanban board is alright, but i just like having everything in one place. ideally, i'll never have to log into atlassian anything, ever again.

    - having the mobile app means i can also turn my desktop notifications off and use the 'focus' mode (with github being able to notify me).

    - discussions have recently been revisited and they made a lot of improvements. the next team from vercel is extremely responsive on there and i think many open source projects could move from mailing lists to something like that. it's not for everyone, but worth considering.

    - wiki's are relatively useless, in my experience.

aside from my own experience, i also support many open source wizards through github sponsors. it's pretty much plug and play, so there's that too.

politics aside, there is a lot wrong with gh - but i'm also strongly convinced that post-acquisition, things could have been much, much worse. i'll continue to support projects and maintainers based on the merit of their projects. whether they choose to use sourcehut, gitlab, or github, i think it's safe to say that creating software and distributing it has never been easier.

[verdverm]

I just tried Codespaces last night, and I think after making two myself, this could lower the barrier for users to try out many projects, if they add a single devcontainer.json to their repo.