> And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform.
Hardly surprising, though, social networks are prone to centralization (due to network effect), and GitHub & its competitors (anything that offers git repos + issue tracking + fork-ability, really) are social networks.
Also, GitHub offering private repos for free right after they got acquired by Microsoft helped a lot. A lot of people, myself included, were using gitlab.com for private repos at that time
And I am one of the people saddened by the convergence on a single platform.
But you can't deny, it's always been pretty great.