This gives us an idea about how many people are actually using GitHub for their own purposes, as opposed to just looking around or contributing code without creating their own project.
As you can see from this graph, there has been a steady increase in both new and closed repositories since 2008:
This means that more people than ever before are using GitHub as a platform for sharing code with others. It also means that more people than ever before are starting their own open source projects on GitHub
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