Not the author, but possible answers:<p>&gt; <i>I disagree, cloud backups are more reliable.</i><p>Cloud backups, maybe. Data that&#x27;s only in the cloud (e.g. on GitHub) is not more reliable than data that is in the cloud and backed-up by you to somewhere else (to a different cloud, if you want).<p>&gt; <i>If the repo goes down it&#x27;s already going to be a lot harder to use, but it seems easier to fork a repo.</i><p>Which means you have to maintain an up-to-date fork, you loose the issues etc from the original repo, and if a repo is DMCAd your GitHub-fork is gone as well.<p>&gt; <i>When have you not been able to work on a local repo locally?</i><p>If you wanted to read the issues, or PRs by other people that you didn&#x27;t manually copy.<p>I really like the project, it should make it easier to make sure I always have a copy of important stuff available. Just need to figure out what&#x27;s the best way of telling it which repos I care enough about (I star to much stuff).<p>EDIT: take a look at the issues though, it has some annoying limitations