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The point of GitHub is not technical - the website is terrible. It's the social network.

tyre 10mo ago
That’s interesting. I would have said the opposite. I’ve never used any of the social features, but the technical aspects (including integrations) are where the value is. It does break and go down; and GHA are a real pain in the ass. But the basic hosting and PR workflow are fine.
- amluto 10mo ago
  The PR workflow is fine if you don’t care about stacked PRs, you don’t write reviews, you don’t read nontrivial reviews, and you don’t need the diff viewer.
  - brabel 10mo ago
    You should use your IDE to do all of those things. Much better that way.
- ii41 10mo ago
  The site UI has been going downhill these years. It's become heavy and slow, and the buttons are more and more randomly placed. Like after you search for something in the repo, to go back to the repo front page you needed to click on the most unexpected button. It's still getting things done, for sure, but no longer pleasant to work with.
  - LexiMax 10mo ago
    I think Github has a nice UI.....when the contents finishes loading. That's the real problem with Github these days. Too much critical information behind throbbers that take their sweet time. I find Codeberg much more responsive, despite being an ocean away and having the occasional anti-AI-scraper screen.
markstos 10mo ago
Some competitors like Gitlab have reduced friction by offering "Login with Github", so if you've already got a Github account, the bar for signing up some alternative forges is low. I help with one of the most popular projects on Codeberg, Fuzzel. I can say we get no shortage of issues and feature requests from being on an alternative forge. Indeed, we have plenty!
bikelang 10mo ago
What is the value of the social network? I discover code by looking for a package in my language via a search engine. Whether it’s GitHub/GitLab/Gittea/etc doesn’t matter as long as it’s indexed by the search engine.

tyre 10mo ago

That’s interesting. I would have said the opposite. I’ve never used any of the social features, but the technical aspects (including integrations) are where the value is. It does break and go down; and GHA are a real pain in the ass. But the basic hosting and PR workflow are fine.

amluto 10mo ago
The PR workflow is fine if you don’t care about stacked PRs, you don’t write reviews, you don’t read nontrivial reviews, and you don’t need the diff viewer.
- brabel 10mo ago
  You should use your IDE to do all of those things. Much better that way.
ii41 10mo ago
The site UI has been going downhill these years. It's become heavy and slow, and the buttons are more and more randomly placed. Like after you search for something in the repo, to go back to the repo front page you needed to click on the most unexpected button. It's still getting things done, for sure, but no longer pleasant to work with.
- LexiMax 10mo ago
  I think Github has a nice UI.....when the contents finishes loading. That's the real problem with Github these days. Too much critical information behind throbbers that take their sweet time. I find Codeberg much more responsive, despite being an ocean away and having the occasional anti-AI-scraper screen.

markstos 10mo ago

Some competitors like Gitlab have reduced friction by offering "Login with Github", so if you've already got a Github account, the bar for signing up some alternative forges is low. I help with one of the most popular projects on Codeberg, Fuzzel. I can say we get no shortage of issues and feature requests from being on an alternative forge. Indeed, we have plenty!

bikelang 10mo ago

What is the value of the social network? I discover code by looking for a package in my language via a search engine. Whether it’s GitHub/GitLab/Gittea/etc doesn’t matter as long as it’s indexed by the search engine.