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Getting acquired by Microsoft is a death sentence for any product. The only variable is how long after acquisition before they gut it. It's almost never right
by amarant 10mo ago
Getting acquired by Microsoft is a death sentence for any product.
The only variable is how long after acquisition before they gut it. It's almost never right away. GitHub was acquired 7 years ago, but it started showing symptoms perhaps 2 years ago.
With this I think it's clear the wound was fatal. GitHub will stumble on for a few more years with ever-decreasing quality, before going the way of Skype.
So, I guess we're all migrating to gitlab? Or is it time to launch gittube? Githamster?
- rcy 10mo agohopefully something decentralized like https://tangled.org https://tangled.org
- pferde 10mo agoHopefully something ForgeFed-powered, so that we can all re-decentralize, as is right and proper.
- myko 10mo agoI'm running forgejo on my NAS, including CI runners etc. Harder to share with folks but great for my personal projects (except building an iOS app, which someday I'll set a Mac Mini up for probably)
- sytse 10mo agoIn case you're considering moving to GitLab we currently have no plans that I'm aware of to pay from bringing your own runners. Happy to answer any questions.
- sceptic123 10mo agoWhy are the self-hosted plans so expensive? Such a high bar to go from free to paid.
- Kwpolska 10mo agoIf Microsoft had not acquired GitHub, there would not be GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a mediocre knock-off of Azure Pipelines, and it was launched after the acquisition.
- hexbin010 10mo agoAzure Pipeline wasn't mediocre?
- chossenger 10mo agoStill is.
- Sammi 10mo agohttps://codeberg.org https://codeberg.org
- amarant 10mo agoThis looks really nice actually! European non-profit is hitting some really good buttons for me! Thanks for the tip, I hadn't heard of codeberg before!
- PhilippGille 10mo agoIt got a boost in popularity recently when Zig announced its move from GitHub to Codeberg: https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/ https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/ But other alternatives exist as well, like Sourcehut: https://sr.ht/ https://sr.ht/
- no_wizard 10mo agoThe exodus from GitHub has not begun, as far as I can tell. They seem to care much less about free users than in the past but businesses still flock to it. GitLab is the only other platform I’ve seen in the workplace of anywhere I worked, with the exception of a big tech company I worked at. They had both GitHub enterprise and an internally maintained platform which was being phased out. if I recall correctly it based on Phabricator
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- wiml 10mo agoI've seen a small but increasing trickle of open source projects leaving github for free(libre) alternatives lately. It's not a stampede but I'd say the exodus is on its way. The considerations for commercial users leaving github are probably pretty different, so perhaps they'll stay.
- ghqqwwee 10mo agoGithub, i.e. MSFT will of course adjust their offer if they would start seeing an significant exodus. They could afford being a loss leader indefinitely. There’s also a large bunch of projects that will never leave, some of which ms have influence over. I mean, some high profile open source projects hasn’t even left source forge yet, even though it has been malware infested shithole for decades.
- fishpen0 10mo agoThis pricing model continues to incentivize them not fixing the hundreds of clearly documented issues that causes CI to be incredibly slow. Everything from their self-inflicted bottlenecking of file transfers to the safe_sleep bug that randomly makes a runner run forever until it times out.
- johannes1234321 10mo ago> The only variable is how long after acquisition before they gut it. Considering that the lifetime of our sun system is finite that statement is undeniably true. Also we don't know how a non-Microsoft GitHub could have developed.