Popularity is certainly important for open source stuff, and personal code samples that you put online for &quot;resume&quot; purposes.  Hell, for <i>that</i> use case you might as well be posting your code on LinkedIn.<p>But for the use cases in which people actually <i>pay money</i> (i.e. private repos that you don&#x27;t WANT outsiders to access), then how is lack of popular visibility a downside?