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Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by ryandv »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #29
ryandv wrote: post #22

Good riddance. I'd never even heard of this man until he came out telling developers to "get out of your career" [0] after stealing all their open source code for Copilot. Instant animosity. GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645

> gamified and turned into social media. What makes you think this? I use it for work and it's never been better in terms of features, and is just as reliable as usual. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.

> I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.

There was a time before "achievements" or badges and NARCISSISM.MD files on your profile page.

The UI has clearly regressed in terms of performance and responsiveness over the years, when GitHub insisted on making the code viewer a pseudo-IDE. There was even an article making this observation here on HN just last week [0].

Do you seriously feel that GitHub of 2025 has had less outages and more stability than GitHub of 2015?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by jerlam »

According to Axios, the GitHub CEO position will not be filled.

> GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke announced Monday that he plans to step down, with Microsoft opting not to directly replace the position, according to memos shared first with Axios.

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/github-ceo-dohmke-step-down

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

#33

Post by bsimpson »

__jonas wrote: post #26

> GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization So the whole of GitHub is now seen primarily as an AI platform?

That's how The Verge is reporting it:

# GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

## GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has resigned, and now GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas...

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by zenethian »

> GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon.

Just in case you thought that Microsoft considered GitHub to be a development tool.

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

#38

Post by thrawa8387336 »

ryandv wrote: post #22

Good riddance. I'd never even heard of this man until he came out telling developers to "get out of your career" [0] after stealing all their open source code for Copilot. Instant animosity. GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645

Steal? They gave it up willingly through naivete. But you would NEVER get a developer to admit such a thing

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

#39

Post by tempest_ »

thrawa8387336 wrote: post #38
ryandv wrote: post #22

Good riddance. I'd never even heard of this man until he came out telling developers to "get out of your career" [0] after stealing all their open source code for Copilot. Instant animosity. GitHub is completely unrecognizable compared to how it was before being gamified and turned into social media. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44808645

Steal? They gave it up willingly through naivete. But you would NEVER get a developer to admit such a thing

Not all open sources licenses are MIT or as permissive as MIT

Re: Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub

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Post by fkyoureadthedoc »

ryandv wrote: post #31
fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> gamified and turned into social media. What makes you think this? I use it for work and it's never been better in terms of features, and is just as reliable as usual. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade.

> I honestly have no idea what you're talking about with gamification and social media. The only gamification I can think of is the commit graph which has been a thing for at least a decade. There was a time before "achievements" or badges and NARCISSISM.MD files on your profile page. The UI has clearly regressed in terms of performance and responsiveness over the years, when GitHub insisted on making the code viewer…

I'm sure if you count incidents vs 2015, 2025 has more. But it also has more scale in every aspect. More features, more users, etc. Over the years of using GitHub I've only been blocked from doing dev activities a handful of times because of GitHub outages. None of them are very memorable.

I appreciate the enhancements to the code viewer, like jumping between symbols.

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