I’ve always hated Lithium forums I’ve had to use. I’m looking at you Virgin Media...



It feels so dated and clunky to use.



I don’t see any reason why open source would be a factor, but that response talking about needing articles and polls and contests sounds like a load of rubbish to me. It does seem odd that they’ve picked a platform that doesn’t even seem to have native code block syntax highlighting in a community for devs.



But what do I know?



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I wonder if they’re getting paid to use it as an endorsement instead of being the ones paying, seeing as the platform will get so much exposure to developers if GitHub use it.



If they can get Lithium into the forefront of developers minds regularly, and get their product in the door and approved for budget at a few big enterprise clients in return, then that could be a smart move on Lithium’s part and still result in a decent ROI over time.