Engine of forum

[Walter Bright]

On 8/22/2018 10:28 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I don't argue against the usefulness of the features that github
> provides, but I'm also wary of the fact that it's basically a walled
> garden -- there's no simple way I know of to extract data like pull
> requests, comments, cross-references, etc..  I mean, it's *possible* to
> write a web crawler that does just that, but such functionality is
> second-class, and one might argue, that it is possible at all is merely
> a happy accident, since github's very design seems to be geared at
> drawing people to centralize everything on github.  It's not quite at
> the point of vendor lock-in, but it's certainly uncomfortably close, in
> my view.

As for github comments, they get echoed to me as emails. So I have an email 
archive of them.