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I see a lot of hate for GitHub after Microsoft, but there were many big improvement that I think outweigh some instability, especially for smaller companies or

I see a lot of hate for GitHub after Microsoft, but there were many big improvement that I think outweigh some instability, especially for smaller companies or open source projects. Free private repos and free GitHub actions. The UI is also pretty nice and clean. I think GitHub is still one of the best options to host your code.

toastal 4y ago
Do we have to give the you-are-the-product speech? It's a proprietary platform that is trying to sell you all of their other services, get you locked into the their tools, and require everyone you wish to collaborate with create an account. Even then, it's buggy, overly social, and since it's not FOSS, we can't fork it, improve/fix it, or self-host it. We also see the status come up a lot because folks have centralized on a service for a distributed version control system and mirrors have become increasingly less common.
- jemmyw 4y ago
  Upvote for both this comment and the parent, because both are true. > We also see the status come up a lot because folks have centralized on a service for a distributed version control system and mirrors have become increasingly less common. At least if it actually went down for a long time you could just push your repos from whoever has then checked out to a new mirror and get going again.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
  > Do we have to give the you-are-the-product speech? Not for me, because I pay for the service, and I'm extremely happy with the value it provides for the price. I don't like downtime either, and I think GH needs to work on their stability, but I've also worked in companies that hosted all their source control on prem, and it had plenty of downtime, too.
  - toastal 4y ago
    I pay for SourceHut and haven't noticed an (unplanned) down times. I also don't feel like they're trying to sell me anything beyond the platform itself. The bundled IRC bouncer is a nice touch as well.

toastal 4y ago

Do we have to give the you-are-the-product speech? It's a proprietary platform that is trying to sell you all of their other services, get you locked into the their tools, and require everyone you wish to collaborate with create an account. Even then, it's buggy, overly social, and since it's not FOSS, we can't fork it, improve/fix it, or self-host it. We also see the status come up a lot because folks have centralized on a service for a distributed version control system and mirrors have become increasingly less common.

jemmyw 4y ago
Upvote for both this comment and the parent, because both are true. > We also see the status come up a lot because folks have centralized on a service for a distributed version control system and mirrors have become increasingly less common. At least if it actually went down for a long time you could just push your repos from whoever has then checked out to a new mirror and get going again.
hn_throwaway_99 4y ago
> Do we have to give the you-are-the-product speech? Not for me, because I pay for the service, and I'm extremely happy with the value it provides for the price. I don't like downtime either, and I think GH needs to work on their stability, but I've also worked in companies that hosted all their source control on prem, and it had plenty of downtime, too.
- toastal 4y ago
  I pay for SourceHut and haven't noticed an (unplanned) down times. I also don't feel like they're trying to sell me anything beyond the platform itself. The bundled IRC bouncer is a nice touch as well.