Also, the founder has an unfortunate history of just up and abandoning his projects when they stop being fun for him. I used his media host/imgur alternative in the past, and it spontaneously just disappeared one day. I'd rather that not happen to my source code
> abandoning his projects when they stop being fun for him
I would call expecting any developer to do it differently quite an entitled opinion. And DeVault has a way better track record on successful projects (some of which continue being successful after he moved on with the help of the communities he fostered) than any of us really.
Experience shows that it's very difficult to make a business work on top of open source software and he is doing it as we speak. Your complaint smells like a petty grudge in the face of all the other things that could be said about his projects.
Git is decentralized. Ticketing systems and mailing lists as found on SourceHut and many other forges aren’t.
And if SourceHut disappears, what would you do with the repository? You’d upload it to a new forge, but how would you tell users where to find it, how would the users know this is the original source and not a hostile fork? It’s better to pick a stable, trustworthy. and 21st-century place like GitHub or GitLab instead of SourceHut.
I'd don't really see a difference between sending an email to a list or to a maintainer. Maybe that's an argument for not adding and adapting to unnecessary concepts like a web based pull request.
> How do you build any sort of community without a place for discussion?
There exist many ways for this. Why does this have to be the same provider (if you don't want to self-host this functionality) as the one that hosts the server for the VCS?
