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I'm a bit out of the loop, why are people moving away from Github?


Zero to one nines of uptime. Shoving copilot in everyone’s faces rather than focusing on quality. Threatening to charge people for self-hosted runners.


Aiiiyy, yea okay that hurts...

Gosh. We're going from software to slopware.


Mainly this https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ But also product decisions that don't seem to be aligned with the preferences of users... see https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github


There's partial outages even today?! Good grief!


> GitHub saw a 58% year-over-year increase in the number of incidents, reaching 109 reported cases: > 17 of them were classified as major, leading to over 100 hours of total disruption. > April stood out as the most turbulent month, with incidents accumulating to 330 hours and 6 minutes.

https://gitprotect.io/blog/devops-threats-unwrapped-mid-year...

That's from 2025 but it continued getting even worse this year.


I will say, to their credit, there has been a ~25% yoy commit increase since the introduction of AI. That's a pretty significant jump on an already popular site, at the same time they're supposed to be training models for search and other features. I think most sites that see that sort of increase will experience increased downtime




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