HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

Post by throwawaypath » Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 1:29 PM UTC

bwb wrote: post #13

Is Gitlab doing better at this point? Or where do they stand?

Post by JCTheDenthog » Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 1:31 PM UTC

hirako2000 wrote: post #83

nacozarina wrote: post #67

everyone knew M$ would ruin github the fake surprise is so fake

M$ bought GH almost a decad ago. Instability is more due to mainstream traffic, combined (+ AI automation pushes on pointless repos) than some slow motion evil mastermind plot. Hanlon's razor applies.

Post by pure-orange » Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 1:32 PM UTC

rytis wrote: post #59

erelong wrote: post #23

so where should people move to instead

I wonder if there's a place for something like matrix, but for repositories (or maybe matrix protocol can handle that?). A world where we have selfhosted, saas, etc, but all interlinked and searchable? Say I find a project on gitlab, I want to contribute to, I checkout to my personal server (or someone elses hosted), and raise a pr back to original repo. I know it doesn't answer your question, just thinking aloud rea…

Post by duped » Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 1:32 PM UTC

sebastiansm7 wrote: post #4

flossly wrote: post #3

Is it me, or did get issues get a lot worse with the transfer to MSFT?

I think is more related to vibe coding

Post by sevenzero » Wed, Apr 29, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #89

dzonga wrote: post #34

You gotta admire journalists. Such a one punch sentence that distills the message with a little bit of dramatic flair. got damn, anyone got recommendations on how to write like a journalist ?

Take a sentence for a title, replace one of the verbs with SLAM, LAMBAST and CLAPS BACK, you're hired. The rest of the article can be AI generated, don't fret about it.