GitHub is Having Issues (Vast Majority is Dormant Projects or Projects Soon to Become Dormant)
So GitHub is in effect just an unprofitable download centre, a lot more so than a codeforge; it's a place for fossilised code to be "shelved" and have licences abused by Microsoft (whose latest attempted business model is plagiarism as a service).
THIS is the last time we "have a go" at GitHub, at least for tonight. GitHub is hardly a codeforge (that's SourceHut), it's more like a time-wasting playground or a game of FOMO, where people come to play (for Microsoft) and pretend to be developers.
From "Crisis Volunteering Nerds: Three Months After COVID-19 Hackathon #WirVsVirus" we have this figure:
OK, so many of these GitHub-hosted projects 'died' within weeks (set aside technical issues).
This is typical GitHub. It's hard to locate information on what % of projects had a commit this past day, month, year, or decade. It's possible that only 1% of projects in GitHub are regularly updated. How many users actively contribute code every day? 1%?
Spam accounts and fake/duplicate users aside, many GitHub "projects" are just clones of something else, creating a false perception (delusion) of magnitude and prominence. █