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Not sure how that matters. If I build a platform explicitly for social coding, but people use it to host images, would you get mad if I continue to optimize for making it better for social coding rather than hosting images?

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If I go to a taco shop but order fries instead, and eventually they focus more on tacos and change the recipe for their fries, I would certainly be mad about it. If you are doing a good job for a domain, folks are going to inevitably be bothered when you do worse by that domain, for whatever reason.

If you're not sure how it matters that none of the users use it as a social platform, then I'm not sure what you think a social platform is.

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> explicitly for social coding

Using source control is not "social coding." You're stretching that word far past its actual meaning, in the effort to make a point.

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