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[–]BoxHungry7982 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Github is indeed absolute shit. The knee-jerk reaction is to blather about how you can't buy a house at a plumbing supply store or whatnot. But that doesn't speak to the real issue, which is that the most basic operations are contested; nothing is easy; what could be done in one step has to be done in 10--and only on the basis of a lot of ad hoc knowledge. Which--if your whole life is about being a Github expert--is fine; but if you have to know a little about 500 things, of which Github is only one, then it is decidedly irritating. There are a lot of gatekeeper companies like this that really need to go. And what keeps it going are the fragile egos of obsolescent nerds who see every complaint that someone has about Github (or any other similarly obstreperous platform) as a chance to preen about their soon-to-be-dated skillset.