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I don’t know what everyone else thinks, but for me, GitHub is a shining star among most developer tools and services. Free hosting for code, sites, personal pro
by sheepscreek 7mo ago
I don’t know what everyone else thinks, but for me, GitHub is a shining star among most developer tools and services. Free hosting for code, sites, personal projects, no obligation to make your repositories public or buy a subscription. For most devs, they would never need to buy a subscription. Heck, I don’t need it, but I pay for it as a thank you for what I get (have gotten) out of it.
I am honestly shocked that they managed to survive and thrive after getting bought by MS! So please pardon my ignorance when I say that I don’t understand why some FOSS projects want to move away.
- itskokeh 7mo agoThis is a valid take. The sheer scale of GitHub and its economic backing by giants allows it to offer a lot, for FREE. Self hosted projects cannot compete with this. They either get huge venture fund or remain small. GitHub is not perfect, but nothing comes close
- phyzome 7mo agoThrive? No. GH has been getting very noticeably worse. The uptime is terrible now and the UI is a lot flakier.
- sheepscreek 7mo agoSo their usage has shot up post AI agents/agentic coding. We are seeing the effects via their struggle to keep up with demand. That by itself does not make the service bad. Claude did not even make it to two nines for January (98.9% availability). Source: https://bsky.app/profile/teropa.bsky.social/post/3mi2dbt27m226 https://bsky.app/profile/teropa.bsky.social/post/3mi2dbt27m2...
- phyzome 7mo agoI mean, I don't know anything about Claude. That sounds like it could be normal for a heavily vibe-coded project. But GH was pretty stable for a decade or so, through many changes. I don't think there's that much new activity. The UI bugginess is also new.