I don't know how art sites are handling AI. The cost to create has gone done multiple orders of magnitude. People are pushing more content into online services than ever before, and the rate is only increasing.
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Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#22I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
Claude Code web won't let me use my gitea instance.
What do you mean? like it doesn't doesn't know how to perform a actions on it like it does with the gh cli? fwiw in a different comment i cited gh cli X claude code as one of the reasons I still github.
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#23I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
> SaaS plays have no moats anymore
I have yet to see literally anyone say this.
I have yet to even see anyone claim that software can't constitute a moat anymore but I expect that there are people saying that. GitHub has a huge non-software moat in the form of network effects, brand recognition, and good will.
The hardest part isn't making a "forge", it's making money off of making a forge. Getting a sufficiently large number of paying customers.
If GitHub doesn't get their quality issues under control someone probably will manage to breach that moat and take over the market. It's not like there's a lack of competitors (Pre-llm: GitLab, BitBucket, Gitea, Source Hut, etc. Post LLM: Tangled, esrc is promising something any day now. Probably more in both camps that don't come to mind).
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#24I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
- There are already viable GitHub replacements, like Codeberg, Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc. Everyone stays on Github for network effects, not because of the superior product. You can't vibe code network effects.
- And yes, GitHub is a massive product with like 50 different huge features. No reasonable person would say you can trivially vibecode that. Vibecoding would still make it easier. I feel this argument is a bit silly, no? "Ah, you can't vibecode GitHub in a weekend? That proves vibecoding was a mirage!" Surely even the most fervent anti-AI skeptic must admit there must be some middle ground between "a mirage" and "can literally replace millions of man-hours of work".
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#25I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
> Why are you still using Github?
Show me the VCs who are willing to fund the marketing effort that would be needed to conquer the network-effects moat, and I'm in.
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#26This is 100% AI's fault. It is a mix of more commits coming in, most likely code quality degradation, and I would not be surprised if capex that could be used to help with load is going towards AI instead
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#27I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
Because my corporate overlord does
i have a lot of sway over what git+cicd system my corporate overlord uses. As I am very Github alternative curious right now, if anyone is pushing alternative git+cicd stack, I want to hear it.
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#29Honestly I kind of feel for them - their traffic must be spiking like no tomorrow. Though still annoying when the team takes down time because GitHub is down...has anyone transitioned to something else successfully?
I'm a DevOps freelancer and I've moved projects off GitHub Actions in prior years (cost and security driven). Everyone uses GitHub a little differently, so there isn't a single migration path. It seems like all parts of GitHub are on fire now, but I'd generally recommend moving in stages.
For my personal work I did a hard cutover to GitLab last month. The issues import is the most complex part as the default import messes up issue authors.
Re: Incident with Actions – Resolved
#30I re-ask this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979968 If everyone is vibecoding, and SaaS plays have no moats anymore, and everyone says they are mad at Github's reliability...why aren't there like 10 viable replacements already? Why are you still using Github?
I run my own Forgejo instance.
I still have a GitHub account I actively use.
GitHub outages and stuff don’t really affect me, so I have no great reason to leave. But I have good reason to stay, because that’s where everyone else is already.