curious: why use own hosting rather than github?

[Erazem Kokot]

> Not sure if Gitlab allows for anonymous issue submission. They do have
> API though so you could still have a form somewhere that would put it
> inside Gitlab.

They do have something like that, but it requires the user to send an
email to a special address and it's annoying to set up, so like you
said, subscribing and posting on a mailing list is way easier.