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.
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
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.
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.
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.
- 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?
Microsoft did the same with Skype, but the tech, dont install new ceo or leadership, run it into the ground
They probably could have put a few MS ads on the website for Azure or w/e and actually made a profit. Otherwise, they could have just left it alone, it wasn’t hurting or competing with them.
On step 6, the long-term investors certainly don’t profit - but the private equity firms invested in buying up big companies often do. They’re the ones aggressively taking over, cutting costs all over, and selling as soon as the result causes the stock price to jump as they showcase record profits; usually because it will take time for the structure to fall apart.
It is not the Microsoft way!
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.
Codeberg.org is your friend.
I brought up my own Forgejo instance and am moving all of my projects to it. It’s fairly easy. Check out my instance:
Start migrating elsewhere folks
codeberg will do.
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?
as much as i hate this garbage site, it was referenced in the article: https://x.com/kdaigle/status/2047803291988590609
