Looks like removing the "meritocracy" doormat, hiring Coraline Ada Ehmke, and changing "master" to "main" paid off in spades!
Ghostty is leaving GitHub
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#482Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy crap, just found out I am 1371. Wow.
I'm wondering now how the heck we ended up so early on Github. It was back then just a small unknown startup but i'm not sure what connection we first 30,000 users share. At the same time i remember there must have been also some connection to Y Combinator back in 2008. Is there a way to see my own history of probably first commits or activity on Github? Oh, i found out. It was the early Rails Community on Github. Th…
That was my connection too! I joined in 2008 when I got my first Rails gig where they were using GitHub, which I hadn't heard of before.
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#483I blame Agent Smith
- Mr. Anderson
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#484If Atlassian had vision they'd swoop in with a sponsorship offer for Ghostty that included moving it to BitBucket.
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#485>This is not the large Elasticsearch outage they had on April 27, 2026. This blog post was written a week before that, so this was a different outage.
Great footnote to finish the article.
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#486I know this is ridiculously dramatic, but its the truth: I actually cried writing this blog post (tears hit my keyboard, I'm embarrassed to say). Nobody should cry over a SaaS, of all things. But GitHub has meant so much more to me than that (all laid out in the post). I have an unhealthy relationship with it. Its given me so much and I'm so thankful for it. But, it's not what it used to be. I don't know. We've been…
It's not a stupid thing - GitHub not being serious about basic reliability is, at this point, a big risk to people depending on it for change management, much less OSS projects needing it to do every aspect of work in the public.
GitHub made working in the open a joy. It's very sad the state that it's in.
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#487I know this is ridiculously dramatic, but its the truth: I actually cried writing this blog post (tears hit my keyboard, I'm embarrassed to say). Nobody should cry over a SaaS, of all things. But GitHub has meant so much more to me than that (all laid out in the post). I have an unhealthy relationship with it. Its given me so much and I'm so thankful for it. But, it's not what it used to be. I don't know. We've been…
We all understand that. We had some piece of software we still cling on to it (in my case is a copy of paint shop pro 5, corel draw 7 and Delphi 7), despite being completely obsoleted or assassinated by "big industry". I could add CoolEdit 2000 to it, but havent really opened it in a decade.
To be honest, I never understood the fascination with github. Its a hub, of git repos. Not to piss on your parade, because your complaints are valid, but maybe isnt github that as gone sour as much as you have grown out of it. This was your passion, now its over and you move on.
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#488Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm 13936 and I felt like I was SO LATE to the party when I signed up.
I'm 17722 and also felt late. I was a holdout on Subversion and was resistant to Git in general since SVN still worked fine and had good tooling, but eventually some client work moved to Git and thus eventually Github.
We must have joined around the same time, 17498. Funny to call us late when this would have been July 2008, or ~3 months after public launch.
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#489OP takes issue with GitHub's constant outages and alludes to agents (and Copilot bloat) as the primary cause. Lots of big services are like this. Google Colab's 'Connect to Drive' is down as we speak. I'm up right now because I know my Runpod VM in Kentucky is going to die rather abruptly and I'll need to manually get it up. Everything has its flaws. Microsoft lets you host your code, websites and media for free and
OP says he's been using Github for 18 years, but he's only leaving now. I think this is enough evidence things have gotten worse.
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#490> past month I’ve kept a journal where I put an “X” next to every date where a GitHub outage has negatively impacted my ability to work2. Almost every day has an X Is it really this bad? I've seen people complain about Github, but I thought it was more of a theoretical inconvenience rather than a real practical one. As in, the uptime for a serious software company should be 99.9, but two hours down just today, and co…
Yes. https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ 94 incidents in 90 days.
It's not always you see a status page so colorful...