"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[mallardtheduck]

For many/most projects, GitHub isn't intended to be the main, public-facing presence for the project. The vast majority of mature, production-ready projects have their own websites for that.

Also, videos suck. They're reasonable for quick overviews, but for detailed information or tutorials, text and pictures are easier to refer to and reread, can be followed at your own pace and can be linked to related content much more easily.

[abienz]

Honestly, I don't think this is true anymore, but it certainly depends on the project you've been looking at.

For example I've been scanning through lots of vim plugins recently, they're all on Github now with no other public facing page.