- Have a project works well
- Amass a massive community with lots of goodwill
- Project gets bought/merged/under new management
- new management destroy everything that attracted the community and goodwill
- ???
- Somehow, not profit
I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?
I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?
Why would Micro$oft keep project that doesn’t bring more and more profits? Github is no longer a product in itself for them. It’s a platform to sell Azure and Copilot subscriptions.
more FOSS projects NEED to get off github. there’s been countless things I’ve stopped using because I refuse to open another github account to simply post an issue or contribute to something.
Codeberg.org is your friend.
Is it possible to make repos without going to their site yet?
Soo, they vibe-refactored a perfectly fine working product?
I migrating to GitLab (my own hosted instance) or I plan to move to https://codefloe.com/
Github has not even one-nine of uptime. Normally you want three-nines or four-nines, they have ZERO-nines. A server in your basement is worlds more reliable.
Of course it fucking is, it runs Linux, not Winslowpes from Microslop. My basement server has 100% uptime, and I’ve got it for close to free (like ten bucks, literally). It’s an old Intel Atom powered desktop motherboard from circa early 2010s if not late 2000s. The uptime was real and literal 100%, but over time I started powering off, when I realised I don’t need it being on all the time. It still has 100% availability for when I need it. I should care more about backups, but the data is backed up, while the system … the thing is, I’ve learnt so much since I installed its system, almost a decade ago, that, I think I’d reinstall it. It’s Arch Linux, which technically doesn’t need to be reinstalled, but it uses quite a lot of actually old things I don’t bother changing.
Okay, I might be not correct, I bet Microslop runs everything of importance on Linux too. It’s rather their stack is very heavily slopped, that’s my wild guess why it’s down all the time.
Almost 12 days down in the last 90 days.
96 issues in the last 90 days.
There’s two nines right there! Just not the ones you need.
Yeah, and the worst thing about this is that Github is critical infrastructure. If Github goes down the drain, so many devs and projects will be affected
We already went through this with SourceForge’s enshittification back in the day, to the point that sometimes people called it “SourceForget”. We’ll survive the GitHub-pocalypse too, it will suck, but we’ll be even better on the other side, at least until the next great centralization and enshittification.
I brought up my own Forgejo instance and am moving all of my projects to it. It’s fairly easy. Check out my instance:
Couple of questionable projects there 😀
lol; Windowscentral.com topic sentence: “Microsoft’s ability to acquire successful companies and then destroy them needs to be studied. Today, we’re talking about GitHub.”
More to the point the uptime fiasco(es) aren’t even the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that microsoft is not secure. Take it as a rule of thumb and you’ll never be disappointed, and hopefully never compromised.
Of course microslop acquiring it was the signal to move. Of course it was.
Bonus schadenfreude in blaming Nadella. As if he isn’t doing exactly what they want him to do. As if Balmer wouldn’t be upside down in a smoking hole in the ground by this point.
That’s the politically correct version. Back in the day they just called it BOGU.
Bend Over Grease Up.
Yeah. Classic microsoft.
It prompted a groveling apology from GitHub’s CCO in response, who said […]
I’m sorry, @mitchellh. The team is going to keep working to make GitHub something you can come back to with real proof, not words. Until then, I’ll still be cheering on Ghostty as a user.April 28, 2026
“Groveling”? Who would write an this article like this? That’s just a regular-ass apology on social media.
come back to
is the real joke here. why would anyone come back? the reason this is such a joke is that GitHub has started to fail not just in Actions or Copilot but literally losing commits, ie the core git technology that has been rock solid since before there even was a GitHub. after migrating away for stuff like this they’d literally have to pay me.
Wait what they’re losing commits? What the?
