Very emotional reactions here, whether fuming at the unreliability of the service, or zealously defending and identifying with it, indicate people have far too much invested in this single point of service.
People are saying - "That's me done for the day, have a good weekend!" What is the economic cost of this? On a global scale? The pattern is the same as we've seen recently with Office365 and other cloud services.
People talk about setting up elaborate monitoring services, yet with a similar effort one could set up one's own development repositories and tools.
It's not like this crowd is typically "helpless", or unaware of what is being done, yet people remain beholden; Github has diversified into a social network and AI tool, far beyond its initial remit as a code repository. People seem genuinely terrified at the prospect of it going. And rightfully so.
In the wake of the xz backdoor attempt Microsoft will soon move to offer "developer protection" and a system of validation, testament and supply-chain protections. At that point Microsoft will have all of you absolutely in the palm of its hand and at its mercy.
Now would be a good time to seriously invest in long term thinking and strategic protection of your development future, indeed of your fundamental ability and rights to develop software free from disruption, pressure and encumbrance.
