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Re: GitHub is sinking

#21
I'm not sure what to make of the graph.

On the one hand the acquisition of GitHub may have caused the availability to be worse.

On the other hand, the 100.00% availability before the acquisition looks suspicious, wondering if it's not just the status page being better updated.

(I'm aware of the recent availability problems with GitHub, but on the graph the problems start in 2020 and don't seem to worsen significantly)

Re: GitHub is sinking

#22

So, what's the actual real alternative ? The one that also supports open source projects ? Ironically gitlab is costlier than github, and not without their faults, but that's "maybe" the only other alternative here, anything else ?

I just installed a gitea. It seems decent.

Re: GitHub is sinking

#23
post #8

Everyone wants to pin this on the Microsoft acquisition or incompetence but it seems pretty clear to me from the material GitHub has posted that AI has 10xed the amount of code being committed to GH, which has downstream effects everywhere - CI, Actions, code ingestion, everywhere. The author pins it on weird things like MS Copilot, which kind of feels like he’s listing off things he doesn’t like rather than casual f…

GitHub hasn't changed in any positive way since the acquisition. A decade is a long time, it tells. GitHub action, co pilot. Oh and that ugly AI search I'm unable to disable. Migration to azure. Yes Microsoft managed to ruin the network effect. Outages? The straw that broke the camel's back.

How on earth is Actions a downside?

Re: GitHub is sinking

#25
post #8

Everyone wants to pin this on the Microsoft acquisition or incompetence but it seems pretty clear to me from the material GitHub has posted that AI has 10xed the amount of code being committed to GH, which has downstream effects everywhere - CI, Actions, code ingestion, everywhere. The author pins it on weird things like MS Copilot, which kind of feels like he’s listing off things he doesn’t like rather than casual f…

Yeah, I had the exact same response after reading the post. I mean, I'm all for jumping on the Microsoft hate train, but not if it misses the elephant in the room. Let's say the _perfect_ GitHub replacement spawns tomorrow? What's preventing the same infrastructure challenges of millions of lines of AI-generated code destroying it? I think centralized code hosting is pretty much going to get killed by AI. Just like i…

Why is centralized code hosting getting killed? I'm running an opensource project, >99% of the code is AI generated, could not do this without GitHub. Ai generated source code needs a place where AIs and people can collaborate. I'm expecting GitHub to be hugely successful, but mostly for an AI audience.

Re: GitHub is sinking

#26
post #8

Everyone wants to pin this on the Microsoft acquisition or incompetence but it seems pretty clear to me from the material GitHub has posted that AI has 10xed the amount of code being committed to GH, which has downstream effects everywhere - CI, Actions, code ingestion, everywhere. The author pins it on weird things like MS Copilot, which kind of feels like he’s listing off things he doesn’t like rather than casual f…

Yeah, I had the exact same response after reading the post. I mean, I'm all for jumping on the Microsoft hate train, but not if it misses the elephant in the room. Let's say the _perfect_ GitHub replacement spawns tomorrow? What's preventing the same infrastructure challenges of millions of lines of AI-generated code destroying it? I think centralized code hosting is pretty much going to get killed by AI. Just like i…

Saas code hosting seems to be the problem here. If companies self hosted, they could deal with the scaling problems themselves.

Re: GitHub is sinking

#27
post #8

Everyone wants to pin this on the Microsoft acquisition or incompetence but it seems pretty clear to me from the material GitHub has posted that AI has 10xed the amount of code being committed to GH, which has downstream effects everywhere - CI, Actions, code ingestion, everywhere. The author pins it on weird things like MS Copilot, which kind of feels like he’s listing off things he doesn’t like rather than casual f…

GitHub hasn't changed in any positive way since the acquisition. A decade is a long time, it tells. GitHub action, co pilot. Oh and that ugly AI search I'm unable to disable. Migration to azure. Yes Microsoft managed to ruin the network effect. Outages? The straw that broke the camel's back.

3 months post Microsoft acquisition, GitHub expanded the free plan to include unlimited private repos.

The next year they removed the limitation on collaborators on private repos for free users.

In the last 4 years they’ve significantly improved their project management tools. I think a lot of teams can make do with GitHub Projects, they’re pretty decent.

Who knows if any of these are directly because of Microsoft or not. But there has naturally been material improvements to GitHub in the years after being bought by Microsoft.

Re: GitHub is sinking

#28
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub hasn't changed in any positive way since the acquisition. A decade is a long time, it tells. GitHub action, co pilot. Oh and that ugly AI search I'm unable to disable. Migration to azure. Yes Microsoft managed to ruin the network effect. Outages? The straw that broke the camel's back.

How on earth is Actions a downside?

I think they meant all the security holes that have been popping up and that there is no interest from Microsoft to fix them.

Re: GitHub is sinking

#29

I installed forgejo on my home server and never looked back. The only problem I face is when hosting an app on DigitalOcean App platform, or vercel etc. They only connect to GitHub.

I’m in a similar boat, I abandoned ship for Gitea years ago (prior to forgejo fork) and have no regrets.

For things that require GitHub I’ve been able to mirror repos there and get things working. Keeping code in sync is annoying though.

Re: GitHub is sinking

#30
post #8

Everyone wants to pin this on the Microsoft acquisition or incompetence but it seems pretty clear to me from the material GitHub has posted that AI has 10xed the amount of code being committed to GH, which has downstream effects everywhere - CI, Actions, code ingestion, everywhere. The author pins it on weird things like MS Copilot, which kind of feels like he’s listing off things he doesn’t like rather than casual f…

GitHub hasn't changed in any positive way since the acquisition. A decade is a long time, it tells. GitHub action, co pilot. Oh and that ugly AI search I'm unable to disable. Migration to azure. Yes Microsoft managed to ruin the network effect. Outages? The straw that broke the camel's back.

I'm loving it, running an opensource project mostly AI generated, i don't have to think about version control, building and testing my app, running AI code review, hosting my docs website, API and cli to enable Claude Code to interact with everything, etc.

It provides huge value for anyone running an opensource AI generated project.

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