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@feld @matthew @diazona
I remember seeing GH for the first time, this was right after massively multiplayer online games and social networks got popular. Its headline/motto was "Social coding", and I was like: "Are you kidding me? Why make even this social?!",— I think I've been even ignoring it for quite some time, pretty much till right before MS took it over, just downloading tarballs from other sources.
I have my own git that's not even accessible from the outside, where I keep my own small projects and mirrors of others' with my patches — when I feel like sharing and that it's worth sharing, I just email the developer a patch. If I won't to report an issue and think that it's unlikely someone else would do it anytime soon, I also use email or reach out on Fedi.

And I was starting to feel like I'm too old-fashined with all this, but now I see that I was actually ahead of time

@m0xEE @feld @matthew To be fair, at least from my perspective (but I think it's widely shared), the reason GitHub was useful had nothing to do with its "social" features, at least not in the sense of social-media-style interactions. It was useful because it made collaboration easier and more visible than the status quo at the time, namely a repository that might have a web-accessible interface for browsing code but no discussion features. (Essentially: pull request reviews.) I would contend that the value of integrating discussion into the code contribution interface is still there - as the original post shows, not everyone needs it, but for many people and projects that's still added value.

@feld @matthew Gotcha... I think I would guess that this actually doesn't happen all that often, although I can really only use my own experience as a basis. Personally I have held back contributions to certain established open source projects because I didn't want to deal with the "drama", but it's never stopped me from creating my own new projects and putting all the open community features in place.

Of course I do not have the experience of being a maintainer of a large project with a very active community, so I can't speak to that.