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Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by injidup »

mylons wrote: post #332
idan wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi there! Longtime fan and hubber here. It's okay to have emotions. I have similar emotions. I'm GitHub User 22723 which is effectively the same as you (considering there's ~180m GH accounts nowadays) My version of your post reads differently: "GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better" Walking away would be easy. I felt that way when I left Heroku ~six years ago. I left that jo…

github hasn't absorbed agentic coding, though. agentic coding has absorbed it, and as a result it's quality is suffering. the thing about github that is so maddening is linus gave us the secret with git itself. then we reinvented centralized source control using git and called it github, and here we are.

Decentralized version control only works if there is some way to find and access those distributed repositories. For many reasons and no matter the tech there is always a drift towards having a centralized registry so that the degrees of separation for individual actors is minimised. Be that a search engine or code forge or social network.

For *most* users, fully distributed and disconnected is a bug not a feature.

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by raincole »

Not to defend Github, but I sometimes feel there are two Githubs that aren't related to each other.

> This is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day

Do people seriously experience outage every day? I really don't know... it always has been feeling like a once-per-six-month thing. Do people have extremely complex Actions that I can't fathom?

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by midtake »

Everyone should have abandoned ship sooner, namely when they were consuming content for Copilot without permission. When it became obvious that pushing your code to GitHub meant giving it directly to Microsoft I stopped using it altogether and ran my own git/gitlab/gitea (I've changed approaches several times).

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by justinator »

mitchellh wrote: post #26

I 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…

Bruh you're exceedingly wealthy, you'll get through this.

Re: Ghostty is leaving GitHub

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Post by nxtfari »

raincole wrote: post #634

Not to defend Github, but I sometimes feel there are two Githubs that aren't related to each other. > This is no longer a place for serious work if it just blocks you out for hours per day, every day Do people seriously experience outage every day? I really don't know... it always has been feeling like a once-per-six-month thing. Do people have extremely complex Actions that I can't fathom?

> Do people have extremely complex Actions that I can't fathom?

Yes. Think CI jobs that test every candidate PR against a matrix of build targets, run fuzzing, run simulation tests, run bench regression tests, etc etc. Modern CI workflow automation has reached way beyond what a pedestrian can fathom if you’re not on the wave.

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