I'm disappointed that issue tracking inside the VCS (probably as a separate repository, or at least a special branch) never got popular. That would reduce the importance of web-based code forges and make moving between them easy.
> Radicle’s Collaborative Objects (COBs) provide Radicle’s social primitive. This enables features such as issues, discussions and code review to be implemented as Git objects. Developers can extend Radicle’s capabilities to build any kind of collaboration flow they see fit.
I do, however question the taste and judgment of any project that tells users to run `curl ...|sh`.
Radicle has some association with cryptocurrency, which is a bit ick to me, but as far as I understand it, it's actually a non-profit and the crypto was more of a grant than buy-in.