Git is not GitHub

A Github repository is decentralized among everyone who has cloned it, nothing about Github changes that.

The other parts, like issue tracking, obviously are not.

It's not decentralized in any practical manner when everyone's local clone is pointing to the same, now no longer available, origin.

This could have been mitigated by having a pre-determined fallback origin (which could very well be something they had in place - I'm not familiar with this project).

> It's not decentralized in any practical manner when everyone's local clone is pointing to the same, now no longer available, origin.

On the contrary, removing the common, centralized origin makes the project decentralized by definition.

Some form of distributed authority could have been implemented as a more practical alternative to the scattered remnants that they might be left with now.

You're right, of course. My previous post was written up a bit too hasty :)

Issues not, unless you use git-bug