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Github has not even one-nine of uptime. Normally you want three-nines or four-nines, they have ZERO-nines. A server in your basement is worlds more reliable.
96 issues in the last 90 days.
There’s two nines right there! Just not the ones you need.
Yeah, and the worst thing about this is that Github is critical infrastructure. If Github goes down the drain, so many devs and projects will be affected
We already went through this with SourceForge's enshittification back in the day, to the point that sometimes people called it "SourceForget". We'll survive the GitHub-pocalypse too, it will suck, but we'll be even better on the other side, at least until the next great centralization and enshittification.
The great thing about git is, that it is pretty decentralized in principle (everyone has a full copy of all source code and commits on their machines), so it is pretty easy to move your whole repository to an alternative git hoster, like Codeberg.
Except all the extra stuff like CI, issues, pull requests, discussions, pages, and probably some more things.
Forgejo has options to import some of that too, but it's not that easy. A modern repository isn't just files in git.
Our company has had fits with GitHub the past month. It feels like every day something is busted.
Our company is also drinking the AI kook aid though and can’t see the forest for the trees.
Almost 12 days down in the last 90 days.
Of course it fucking is, it runs Linux, not Winslowpes from Microslop. My basement server has 100% uptime, and I’ve got it for close to free (like ten bucks, literally). It’s an old Intel Atom powered desktop motherboard from circa early 2010s if not late 2000s. The uptime was real and literal 100%, but over time I started powering off, when I realised I don’t need it being on all the time. It still has 100% availability for when I need it. I should care more about backups, but the data is backed up, while the system … the thing is, I’ve learnt so much since I installed its system, almost a decade ago, that, I think I’d reinstall it. It’s Arch Linux, which technically doesn’t need to be reinstalled, but it uses quite a lot of actually old things I don’t bother changing.
Okay, I might be not correct, I bet Microslop runs everything of importance on Linux too. It’s rather their stack is very heavily slopped, that’s my wild guess why it’s down all the time.
After I got an UPS, my Ubuntu server has never had any unintended downtime, solid as a rock
I mean, there's gotta be a few nines in there if you keep going enough decimal places to the right...
Even the most hackiest, quickly coded with no regard for other devs systems at work have one 9, it's fucking pathetic.
Hm, interesting, I can not remember a single time in the last 10 years where github has any issue for me.
Contrary to that I know "nine" availability services that failed a lot of time.
I wonder where it's gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?
I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?
Why would Micro$oft keep project that doesn't bring more and more profits? Github is no longer a product in itself for them. It's a platform to sell Azure and Copilot subscriptions.
They probably could have put a few MS ads on the website for Azure or w/e and actually made a profit. Otherwise, they could have just left it alone, it wasn't hurting or competing with them.
Honestly it was helping them. Add in another hoop for me to jump through for open source/indie projects and I'm just going full Linux, especially with all the effort I keep having to go through to keep windows how I want it. Like windows is genuinely becoming as much if not more effort and headaches than Linux for me. I'm also running out of windows only games, once these last couple communities die I'll probably never look at anything msoft again in my life all because of the companies constant anti-user decisions.
Microsoft did the same with Skype, but the tech, dont install new ceo or leadership, run it into the ground
You know, when Boeing let the MBAs run engineering, several hundred people died. It doesn’t seem like any other companies have learned from this.
Boeing wasn't the first, and really they did learn. They learned they could make tons of money off killing a company and get away with it
Private Equity summarized
lol; Windowscentral.com topic sentence: “Microsoft's ability to acquire successful companies and then destroy them needs to be studied. Today, we're talking about GitHub.”
More to the point the uptime fiasco(es) aren’t even the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that microsoft is not secure. Take it as a rule of thumb and you’ll never be disappointed, and hopefully never compromised.
Of course microslop acquiring it was the signal to move. Of course it was.
Bonus schadenfreude in blaming Nadella. As if he isn’t doing exactly what they want him to do. As if Balmer wouldn’t be upside down in a smoking hole in the ground by this point.
That’s the politically correct version. Back in the day they just called it BOGU.
Bend Over Grease Up.
Yeah. Classic microsoft.
Forgejo is the best alternative. They are also working on ActivityPub support, so different Forgejo instances can communicate with each other.
Codeberg is one of the many Forgejo instances.
more FOSS projects NEED to get off github. there's been countless things I've stopped using because I refuse to open another github account to simply post an issue or contribute to something.
I brought up my own Forgejo instance and am moving all of my projects to it. It’s fairly easy. Check out my instance:
I did the same. Thres even a tool that lets you pull everything from github real easy.
Once PR/issue federation works...its going to be SOL for GitHub. Or just a slow decline.
Couple of questionable projects there 😀
It prompted a groveling apology from GitHub's CCO in response, who said [...]
I'm sorry, @mitchellh. The team is going to keep working to make GitHub something you can come back to with real proof, not words. Until then, I'll still be cheering on Ghostty as a user.April 28, 2026
"Groveling"? Who would write an this article like this? That's just a regular-ass apology on social media.
come back to
is the real joke here. why would anyone come back? the reason this is such a joke is that GitHub has started to fail not just in Actions or Copilot but literally losing commits, ie the core git technology that has been rock solid since before there even was a GitHub. after migrating away for stuff like this they’d literally have to pay me.
A mistake in the article: ghostty is not "nearly two decades" old. It's like two years old. I think the author saw that the ghostty developer had been on github for that long, and assumed that the ghostty project had been going the whole time.
It's great to see popular projects moving to alternatives.
how many vibe coding incidents will it take for microslop to learn?
I was thinking of joining GitHub back then, but the announcement that MS is buying it put me off. I was right from the start.
Left github months ago. Fuck that star greed. Everyone experienced enough to code and git has the power to run a forgejo instance on it's own. Or simply go to https://codeberg.org/.
Downhill ever since they removed the horizontal merge graph from the classic Desktop, then closed an issue about it because too many people were affected.
lol. they really are speedrunning their end, aren't they?
They're going to try and buy all the right politicians to remove the competition so you don't have any choice.
Got smacked with the pull request incident banner yesterday and now I'm actually considering to just move all my random personal repos to GitLab lol.
I've been putting off spinning up Forgejo at home because I really need to clean up my homelab design (really abusing quadlets to the point where it would be easier to just do K8s), and I already know I'm gonna immediately waste all my time setting up a dumb CI/CD pipeline that looks really cool but just makes a big mess every time I commit a mistake because I am not in the mood of setting up a monkeychain of pre-commit hooks at home lmao.
I migrating to GitLab (my own hosted instance) or I plan to move to https://codefloe.com/
FWIW, I switched to self-hosted GitLab in Docker when Microslop borged GitHub and found it to be resource hungry and slow. Seems like it's just a wrapper around their unoptimised, monolithic, warts-and-all enterprise product with a few flags changed.
And it's entirely dependent on the ongoing goodwill (and competence) of GitLab, ie. subject to "we've altered the deal; pray we don't alter it any further".
Migrated it to a Gitea container soon after, which is light and fast. If I was making the same decision today, I'd switch to Forgejo, but that's more of an ideological position than technical or UX one versus Gitea.
