GitHub is almost forever. Your custom domain disappears when you stop paying the bills, which if you’re an open source developer has a higher likelihood than GitHub disappearing.
One day, we’re all going back to vendoring dependencies.
Unless the field of software development somehow totally stagnates, I'm confident that at some point I will move to a different hosting service, as github goes the way of sourceforge, travis-ci, and myspace. So my personal domain will continue to be relevant (it's lasted fine 23 years).
Maybe at that point it won't be using git either, or maybe it will - who knows.
Mine has lasted over 25 at this point, but one day I will die, my domain name will lapse because what I do as a career might as well be witchcraft to anyone in my family and then my modules will be lost forever. Sucks any way you cut it. Hopefully someone who found my modules useful will fork whatever they find and keep them going.
SenHeng · · focus · HN ↗
One day, we’re all going back to vendoring dependencies.
mkj · · focus · HN ↗
Maybe at that point it won't be using git either, or maybe it will - who knows.
sleepybrett · · focus · HN ↗