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GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

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Re: GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

#2

Post by isoprophlex »

What is GH's remaining long-term moat right now, anyway? Microsoft bundling? Name recognition? That it's still the goto place for open source? Existing corpo contracts?

- githubs' ci/cd has been pretty crap for me personally (ok there's worse out there but it's definitely not a joyful thing)

- The user interface I hate more and more each year.

- The availability, well... there's still two nines in there lol

- the CLI is not bad, i don't hate that

Re: GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

#5

Post by ghewgill »

Yes, let's look beyond centralized services for source control (also known as "developer social media"). For example, Forgejo is working on federation (https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m...) which makes the choice of where to host your code less relevant, because anybody on the federated network will be able to interact with any other repository no matter where it is hosted.

The success and growth of Mastodon proves that this model works, particularly for people who identify as being developers.

Re: GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

#6

Post by IshKebab »

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

What is GH's remaining long-term moat right now, anyway? Microsoft bundling? Name recognition? That it's still the goto place for open source? Existing corpo contracts? - githubs' ci/cd has been pretty crap for me personally (ok there's worse out there but it's definitely not a joyful thing) - The user interface I hate more and more each year. - The availability, well... there's still two nines in there lol - the CLI…

* Free private repos

* Free CI, especially Mac & Windows.

Find my a competitor that offers that. Until then I think their uptime is going to have to get a lot worse before the majority care.

Re: GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

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Post by petcat »

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

What is GH's remaining long-term moat right now, anyway? Microsoft bundling? Name recognition? That it's still the goto place for open source? Existing corpo contracts? - githubs' ci/cd has been pretty crap for me personally (ok there's worse out there but it's definitely not a joyful thing) - The user interface I hate more and more each year. - The availability, well... there's still two nines in there lol - the CLI…

> What is GH's remaining long-term moat right now

180,000,000 monthly active users

Re: GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

#8

Post by the__alchemist »

isoprophlex wrote: post #2

What is GH's remaining long-term moat right now, anyway? Microsoft bundling? Name recognition? That it's still the goto place for open source? Existing corpo contracts? - githubs' ci/cd has been pretty crap for me personally (ok there's worse out there but it's definitely not a joyful thing) - The user interface I hate more and more each year. - The availability, well... there's still two nines in there lol - the CLI…

Community; network effects.

Also, observe that the competitors all copied it's UI. And on a case-by-case basis, they have drawbacks of their own.

Re: GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

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Post by __xor_eax_eax »

ghewgill wrote: post #5

Yes, let's look beyond centralized services for source control (also known as "developer social media"). For example, Forgejo is working on federation ( https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/m... ) which makes the choice of where to host your code less relevant, because anybody on the federated network will be able to interact with any other repository no matter where it is hosted. The success an…

Is Mastodon successful?
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