Github put the Readme and some code that makes up the repo up front, and there's an outsized focus on making fancy landing pages.
The downside of this is that because Github's methodology has been so dominant, many don't understand that there could be any other way to host code - tools that are primarily code review focused like Gerrit require require a bit of "hey, imagine that an aggregated PR page was the homepage" training for new hires, for example.
The downside of this is that because Github's methodology has been so dominant, many don't understand that there could be any other way to host code - tools that are primarily code review focused like Gerrit require require a bit of "hey, imagine that an aggregated PR page was the homepage" training for new hires, for example.