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So, China has its own github, probably due to the GFW and due to better l10n. How popular is coding.net compared to github?

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Alexa.com is great for these kind of questions. coding.net has a global rank of 15,497 (and falling somewhat fast), github.com has a global rank of 61 and has been stable if somewhat declining.

Github is not blocked by the GFW. I've never heard of coding.net before, most people here use github in my experience.

It has been blocked by the GFW a few times. I guess having it go down like that unpredictably would push people towards coding.net? But the l10n is probably a much bigger factor for why anyone would use coding.net?

It's more than that. https://Coding.net is a cloud development platform that enables developers do all the work in a browser (include free private repositories, WebIDE, powerful GTD tools, programmer community...).

Also, CODING runs a marketplace (https://mart.coding.net) to help developers find matching software requirements and make the deal. We will be rolling out the English version of our site in this year, so stay tuned:)

So do you comply with Chinese censorship better than github does?

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