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git was a tiny crappy content tracker linus, one of the most prolific C hackers in history, did in a couple of weeks. it wasn’t even a version control system nor intended to be used directly, merely to make his personal life easier after tridge enraged larry.

“Normie focussed multi platform api-driven rich text media chat system” is 100x that work and unrelated to k8s’ existing ocean boiling.



I’m not saying they should; only that they could.

Nothing about it needs to be normie focused.

“merely to make his personal life easier” is the key. What made it what it is today is - after the first barebones release, it was worked on until it was useful enough to be worked on by more people; pretty soon there were a few folks using it, and eventually the snowball effect led to it being maintained by a motivated group of folks, which eventually leads us to today.

A collab tool doesn’t need to be built from scratch. Existing options include IRC, Matrix, Zulip... Maybe one fits the bill already.




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