SMRTR ProgrammingMay 3, 2026Daily.dev

A GitHub for maintainers

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GitHub's social layer was built around people and forks, but modern open source runs on dependency graphs — and forges have barely touched that. Downstream testing before releases, dependency-aware feeds for deprecation notices, better fork network visibility, and safer CI defaults are the gaps that matter most for open source maintainers today, and no current GitHub replacement is addressing them.

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