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date: 2026-04-29 09:10
title: Before GitHub
link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/
cited: Armin Ronacher
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> GitHub accidentally became that archive because it became the center of Open Source activity. Once that no longer holds, we should not assume some magic archival function will emerge or that GitHub will continue to function as such. We have already seen what happens when project homes are just personal servers and good intentions, and we have seen what happened to Google Code and Bitbucket.
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> I hope GitHub recovers, I really do, in part because a lot of history lives there and because the people still working on it inherited something genuinely important. But I no longer think it is responsible to let the continued memory of Open Source depend on GitHub remaining a healthy product.