Then you missed out on an intelligent and frankly important critique. He managed to put in words what I have been thinking for a while. I was skeptical after the first two sentences too...

The statement made upthread was that (a) github destroyed open source social structure and (b) has resulted in buggy releases when there are releases.

I would have liked to see some examples in such a broad statement. I am struggling to think of an O/S project I used pre-github that fits the bill.

> an intelligent and frankly important critique

I disagree on both counts. Actually, I find the assertions in that post callous and destructive. This cathedral that the poster is referring to never existed. Open source has never been healthier, and Github is a very big part of the reason why.

Such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and the person supplied zero evidence.

The parent makes very salient points, I think you'd do we'll to understand rather than brush then away because they don't comport with the conventional echo chamber wisdom.