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Left github months ago. Fuck that star greed. Everyone experienced enough to code and git has the power to run a forgejo instance on it's own. Or simply go to https://codeberg.org/.
Even my employer, otherwise eager to gargle Microslop balls as deep as they can (Ooh, look! Another option to replace a third party tool with Microslop! Also, because apparently so many people still haven't accepted the lord and saviour into their hearts, let's aggressively market the utility of Copilot and offer more crash course introductions!)...
...are hosting their own Gitlab instance. I won't say it's perfect, but apparently we used Github in the past and have since moved away.
how many vibe coding incidents will it take for microslop to learn?
Got smacked with the pull request incident banner yesterday and now I'm actually considering to just move all my random personal repos to GitLab lol.
I've been putting off spinning up Forgejo at home because I really need to clean up my homelab design (really abusing quadlets to the point where it would be easier to just do K8s), and I already know I'm gonna immediately waste all my time setting up a dumb CI/CD pipeline that looks really cool but just makes a big mess every time I commit a mistake because I am not in the mood of setting up a monkeychain of pre-commit hooks at home lmao.
You know, when Boeing let the MBAs run engineering, several hundred people died. It doesn’t seem like any other companies have learned from this.
Boeing wasn't the first, and really they did learn. They learned they could make tons of money off killing a company and get away with it
Private Equity summarized
I was thinking of joining GitHub back then, but the announcement that MS is buying it put me off. I was right from the start.
Downhill ever since they removed the horizontal merge graph from the classic Desktop, then closed an issue about it because too many people were affected.
Start migrating elsewhere folks
codeberg will do.
Gitlab maybe? (someone already said Codeberg)
I recently started out in Codeburg. It's a little bit user hostile; there were things I knew I should be able to do, but finding them was too unclear. It took a little bit longer to figure out, but it's worth it to not use a MS product
but it’s worth it to not use a MS product
Agreed
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.
I wonder what exactly they screwed up to bork it like this. It would seem like a no brainer to leave all the git stuff alone and add all the random fancy AI stuff in a separated manner.
Even the most hackiest, quickly coded with no regard for other devs systems at work have one 9, it's fucking pathetic.
96 issues in the last 90 days.
There’s two nines right there! Just not the ones you need.
the monkey paw curls type shit
Hm, interesting, I can not remember a single time in the last 10 years where github has any issue for me.
Contrary to that I know "nine" availability services that failed a lot of time.
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
Our company has had fits with GitHub the past month. It feels like every day something is busted.
Our company is also drinking the AI kook aid though and can’t see the forest for the trees.
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.
The great thing about git is, that it is pretty decentralized in principle (everyone has a full copy of all source code and commits on their machines), so it is pretty easy to move your whole repository to an alternative git hoster, like Codeberg.
Except all the extra stuff like CI, issues, pull requests, discussions, pages, and probably some more things.
Forgejo has options to import some of that too, but it's not that easy. A modern repository isn't just files in git.
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?
Microsoft did the same with Skype, but the tech, dont install new ceo or leadership, run it into the ground
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.
github is not a collaboration platform for them. It's an AI service. just look at who are they reporting to since the CEO left last year
lol. they really are speedrunning their end, aren't they?
They're going to try and buy all the right politicians to remove the competition so you don't have any choice.
Forgejo is the best alternative. They are also working on ActivityPub support, so different Forgejo instances can communicate with each other.
Codeberg is one of the many Forgejo instances.
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.
A mistake in the article: ghostty is not "nearly two decades" old. It's like two years old. I think the author saw that the ghostty developer had been on github for that long, and assumed that the ghostty project had been going the whole time.
It's great to see popular projects moving to alternatives.
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.
I brought up my own Forgejo instance and am moving all of my projects to it. It’s fairly easy. Check out my instance:
