1 - CodePlex was a more elegant repo for a more civilized age and hasn't really kept pace with the features people want.
2 - Microsoft doesn't really benefit from keeping it open anymore and MS is realizing they can reap many of the benefits of collaboration without all the overhead by just using Github.
Github has the marketshare, but there are other options. Gitlab for example seems to be moving in the right direction and I'm excited to see what they do in the next two years or so.
You're correct - our investment has shifted to Visual Studio Team Services (https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/git/). We use GitHub extensively for our open-source work, and VSTS for private/internal projects.
(Disclaimer: I'm on the PM team for VSTS & CodePlex)
I don't see how you come up with this stuff. Codeplex was simply uglier than Github, that's it. Both graphical design wise and interaction design wise.
1 - CodePlex was a more elegant repo for a more civilized age and hasn't really kept pace with the features people want.
2 - Microsoft doesn't really benefit from keeping it open anymore and MS is realizing they can reap many of the benefits of collaboration without all the overhead by just using Github.
Github has the marketshare, but there are other options. Gitlab for example seems to be moving in the right direction and I'm excited to see what they do in the next two years or so.