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.
how many vibe coding incidents will it take for microslop to learn?
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.
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.
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
Start migrating elsewhere folks
codeberg will do.
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.
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
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 keep hearing about codeberg. Yet, when Claude CLI was leaked — I found the repo on some weird blockchain git repository with a message like “It’s here forever now…”
For OSS and personal projects, wouldn’t a blockchain solution actually be pretty good?
Edit: found it https://gitlawb.com/node/repos/z6MkgKkb/instructkr-claude-code
Not really. Blockchain technology has one use case and that is collaboration between partners who don’t trust each other. So we’re talking crypto coins, where not all nodes are really trustworthy and there is an incentive to cheat. But there’s no reason to bring this tech to your Git repository because you really do not want untrustworthy participants in your code. Only you should have access to your Git rep, and then the easier solution is to host it yourself and use a normal database.
Maybe I am using the wrong technology for the right idea here, in my statement. What I’m really trying to get at is, wouldn’t we benefit greatly from having decentralized control over git hosting? Ideally then, The People decide what happens with it as a public resource — not a fickle technology company with competing interests and revolving management.
The solution should be immune to DMCA takedown requests, IMO.
Edit: I’ve never really thought about it… but decentralized hosting could seriously mess with IP laws, couldn’t it? Leaks can be done in a way that they cannot be undone.
Almost 12 days down in the last 90 days.
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.
After I got an UPS, my Ubuntu server has never had any unintended downtime, solid as a rock
- 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
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.
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.
Honestly it was helping them. Add in another hoop for me to jump through for open source/indie projects and I’m just going full Linux, especially with all the effort I keep having to go through to keep windows how I want it. Like windows is genuinely becoming as much if not more effort and headaches than Linux for me. I’m also running out of windows only games, once these last couple communities die I’ll probably never look at anything msoft again in my life all because of the companies constant anti-user decisions.
I never understand this: Linux has always been the reliable and manageable one. Windows has always been the flakey corporate nonsense. It is the one that causes me headaches. Every since XP came out.
Games, well that’s a fair point.
It is not the Microsoft way!
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.
I’m sorry, but these like ultimatums that people gave themselves are kind of ridiculous if I have an issue and the developer only uses GitHub I’m gonna post the issue on GitHub and get the issue fixed for myself and everyone else I’m not gonna use some purity test and be like oh let’s not fix this issue just because I can’t stand the parent company like Jesus fucking Christ you go touch some goddamn grass
k.
So waiting on Kitchenowl to return to existence for example. Considering switching to Mealie at this point
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.
I brought up my own Forgejo instance and am moving all of my projects to it. It’s fairly easy. Check out my instance:
I did the same. Thres even a tool that lets you pull everything from github real easy.
Once PR/issue federation works…its going to be SOL for GitHub. Or just a slow decline.
Couple of questionable projects there 😀
Codeberg.org is your friend.
Is it possible to make repos without going to their site yet?
Yes, but you’ll need to login through terminal
mkdir myrepo cd myrepo git initElite hax.
git init /
Looool, touche. What about registering that repo, pushing it (ie not updates/changes), and/or deleting it? Do i need a js-supporting browser for that?
You probably need to use their website to register an account (its Anubis protected, for good reasons), but once you have an auth token their API is pretty good. There’s even an Emacs package (fj.el)
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.
I wouldn’t even call that an apology. One “sorry” and some verbiage alluding to things being better at some mysterious point in the future.
Of course, hollow words is basically what social media is made of, so you’re not wrong…
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
Soo, they vibe-refactored a perfectly fine working product?
And then speedran loosing all of their customers. It’s no longer reliable. Businesses can not have downtime when you are paying idle employees. Now we get to watch them hemorrhage customers until they die.