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woodruffwtoday at 2:00 PM0 repliesview on HN

Going more than 20 miles an hour and not dying of heat exhaustion (or because your oats are too dry) are pretty big features.

But my point was that it’s a bad analogy. People are opting out of GitHub despite the alternatives having fewer features. You can read that as an ideological choice or as a YAGNI one. If it’s ideological, then there’s no competitive or feature angle at all; people are doing it because it seems right to them.

(To be clear, I have no problem with this. I think GitHub only gets better after public pressure, as we’ve seen with the last N cycles of product atrophy.)