They can have weekly outages, and the FOSS products would still be forced to be on GitHub.
https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...
proof here. The top are taken by chinese educational repos. Elastic Search and Spring Boot are the only projects actually used by anyone in the top 10. But why would I trust the stars for spring boot over the fact its used in every java shop on the planet?
- I don't look at GitHub Stars
- I don't use Facebook
- I am never persuaded by advertisement
- I can build Dropbox over a weekend
Even if these are true, it is irrelevant. Hacker News is only a sliver of the tech world.