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The kind of exposure I referred to was developers. Skilled individuals that could join, and/or contribute to the project. Yarn needs that kind of exposure.

That, I understand. 😃 I just don’t think that you’ll get that just because it’s hosted on GitHub.

Hmm, maybe I’m misunderstanding or misusing the word “exposure”. 🤔 Sorry. What I mean by “exposure”: You make a painting and hang it on a wall of your apartment = little exposure, just the people that visit you at your home will see it. If you show the painting at an exhibition where there’s 10 other paintings and lots of visitors = large exposure. However, if there are 1000 other paintings at that exhibition = much less exposure, because it won’t stick out that much. To me, GitHub is like an exhibition of paintings but everyone can show up at any time and put their painting there, so there’s a vast number of paintings and your painting will hardly be noticed by anybody. So the mere fact that you’re at an exhibition doesn’t mean that you’ll get lots of exposure.

I mean, I have discovered literally zero projects just because they’re on GitHub. I wouldn’t even know how that works. When I log into GitHub, I see this:

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Only the stuff on the right where it say “explore repositories” is new to me. And it’s completely random – the chance of Yarn showing up there is basically zero. The rest, I already know about it. So how will I discover new and interesting projects that I never heard about? Am I supposed to visit the “stars” pages of the people that I follow and then check out those repos? And look at the list of followers of those people? 🤔 I don’t see how this is going to work out.

Alright, there’s one thing: If one of the people that I follow “stars” a repo, I’ll get notified about that. Maybe something interesting shows up there. That depends a lot on which people you’re following, though, and there is absolutely no guarantee that something interesting is going to ever show up.

But! @prologic@twtxt.net already mentioned in the past that it’s different for him. Apparently, he does discover new projects on GitHub. So maybe I’m just not getting that platform and maybe I’m just using it wrong. That’s totally possible! 🤔