They got fat and lazy. The competition wasn't there previously. Bitbucket, Gitorious etc just weren't up to scratch so Github was a defacto monopoly for cloud h

They got fat and lazy. The competition wasn't there previously. Bitbucket, Gitorious etc just weren't up to scratch so Github was a defacto monopoly for cloud hosting of git repositories. The gitlab came on the scene, shipped a Github replacement and then some. Is shipping features in 6 months faster than Github did over the past few years. Github have woken up though and started shipping features again. It's good to have competition. At least, for consumers.