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

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Post by nicoburns »

WestCoader wrote: post #6

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 ins…

They're claiming a huge increase in traffic due to vibe coded projects. It might just be an excuse, but it certainly seems plausible to me.

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

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Post by glenngillen »

Tade0 wrote: post #22
flossly wrote: post #3

Is it me, or did get issues get a lot worse with the transfer to MSFT?

Even after decades, the policy is the same: Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

Which was a policy that increased their market dominance for their existing dominate products.

What exactly are they extinguishing GitHub to the benefit of? Azure Repos?

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

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Post by stephenlf »

Mashimo wrote: post #19
gonzo41 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mee too. We just did a very similar migration at work it's incredibly frustrating, I've got all my CI ported over and now this. MSFT should just create slophub.com they'd make money im sure.

Honest question, why are companies interested in hosting on github? As a private person I use it too as a free hoster, but from work I mainly know self hosted instances of jenkins and TeamCity.

Onboarding construct workers is super easy.

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

Mashimo wrote: post #19
gonzo41 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mee too. We just did a very similar migration at work it's incredibly frustrating, I've got all my CI ported over and now this. MSFT should just create slophub.com they'd make money im sure.

Honest question, why are companies interested in hosting on github? As a private person I use it too as a free hoster, but from work I mainly know self hosted instances of jenkins and TeamCity.

> Honest question, why are companies interested in hosting on github?

Mostly boils down to marketing and easier to establish a community. Almost every developer has an account there, leading to network effects being much larger, so if you're a new FOSS project, finding contributors and getting your project in front of other's eyes is much easier when you're on GitHub compared to your own Forgejo instance.

With that said, I'd question if chasing "most external one-time contributors" or GitHub stars is the right way to actually run a FOSS project, personally I'd avoid thinking about those vanity-numbers as much as possible and focus on the project, code and contributors themselves.

But, I've literally heard those two arguments for "why GitHub" countless of times over the years.

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

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Post by twoodfin »

nicoburns wrote: post #31
WestCoader wrote: post #6

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 ins…

They're claiming a huge increase in traffic due to vibe coded projects. It might just be an excuse, but it certainly seems plausible to me.

I’d be shocked if this wasn’t the reason.

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

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Post by not_ai »

ellisv wrote: post #26
Mashimo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question, why are companies interested in hosting on github? As a private person I use it too as a free hoster, but from work I mainly know self hosted instances of jenkins and TeamCity.

Most developers have experience using GitHub. The UI and concepts are familiar. The friction for adopting features like Actions is relatively low.

At one point it was also used as signaling that a company was “modern.”

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

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Post by zackangelo »

thiago_fm wrote: post #8

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…

I don’t think this is true across Blizzard. Overwatch is the best it’s ever been.

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

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Post by dv_dt »

thiago_fm wrote: post #8

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…

Exactly why does it keep happening, why is the default strategy find golden goose, kill goose, look for new geese
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