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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.
I'm frustrated with GitHub's stability, too, but we should be clear that GitHub wasn't down. They're one of the more honest services when it comes to posting service degradations, unlike some other platforms where teams will resist updating the status page until it's an undeniable site-wide outage. > We are working with our compute provider to alleviate elevated queue times and failures for Actions Jobs running on Ho…
All those "GitHub is dead" and "GitHub will crumble soon" cries are massively exaggerating things. Most users probably won't even notice these "issues" or "downtimes", since they only affect certain parts of the site.
Sure, it's annoying if you're impacted, but that still doesn't spell doom for GitHub as an organization
I 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?
This video suggests OpenAI is actively developing an alternative to GitHub https://youtu.be/f3u57jkwBFE?si=FJuxZfmc-i7EkPlx
I 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 lar…
I've heard a lot of people say this...including myself after a root beers. I think you just have to look to any time an AI feature is announced and some related companies stock price crumbles. Just google something like "stock price tumbles after anthropic announces" or something like that.
I 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?
> … platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
> GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.
Incidents spiked recently and I wonder what's repeatedly causing the issue.
Mistakes (preventable or not) can happen, but repeated failures is a systematic issue.
Honestly 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?
It it was a startup, sure, I'd feel for them. This is Microsoft though. They have the money and resources
I 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 everyone wants the fake internet points (sorry, stars) to mention on their CV.
Because there are already a number of viable alternatives, them not being chosen has nothing to do with AI coding but other factors like market momentum & network effects and familiarity. They are used, just much less so. If there are already good alternatives, why would anyone vibe code a new one any more than they would write a new one manually? Forges are not sexy stuff, and the existence of numerous decent free ones means that you aren't going to be able to sell a new one in any way (paid accounts, stalking/advertising, …) at least not until it has a significant following and that is unlikely to happen because of the reasons above.
People not wanting to use github (or one of the common alternatives that already exist) are more likely to just use git as-is, and other tolls as needed for issue tracking, CI, etc, than to create a new forge.
GitHub's COO shared this under-reported X post last month [1] on their exponential growth. I'd love to see more proactive messaging on their growth rate / vision for agentic interactions. > … platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) > GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week…