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HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Nothing is pissing me off more than GitHub's stability going down the tubes RIGHT as work is migrating everything, and I mean everything, from CircleCI to GH.

The wildest thing is that Azure Repos/Pipelines was better than this.

Their one caveat is also that they are still migrating it to Azure infra, so it's possible that's still in a one foot in one foot out kinda scenario, from what I've heard. But, this isn't inspiring confidence.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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It isn't surprising at all, Microsoft is doing a PE firm playbook with what they buy. You don't need to look much far, let's think about its biggest acquisition to date, Blizzard.

Blizzcon canceled. All of its IP barely got any love.

See what players think about the latest World of Warcraft patch. It's absolutely shit and broken. People say they fired the entire QA department since a few years back and since then the quality has just gone down.

They buy those businesses because they have nothing to do with that free cash flow, and for accounting reasons it makes sense to have them.

They didn't buy those businesses to develop it further and make it worth more.

Github will just become ever more irrelevant.

The key issue is that the US governments let those huge monopolies exist, and then use their money to buy other businesses and enshiftify them.

Unless that changes in the US, this will continue happening.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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With Ghostty being the latest project to leave GitHub, it does make me wonder who will leave next.

I don't expect everybody and their nan to leave GitHub by next wednesday and spin up their own Forgejo server, but I do think GitHub should be worried that people are finally looking to move away from them.

Re: HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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post #9

With Ghostty being the latest project to leave GitHub, it does make me wonder who will leave next. I don't expect everybody and their nan to leave GitHub by next wednesday and spin up their own Forgejo server, but I do think GitHub should be worried that people are finally looking to move away from them.

do we have already an HN user creating "who-left-gh.net"? (domain is free)
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