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With Ghostty being the latest project to leave GitHub, it does make me wonder who will leave next. I don't expect everybody and their nan to leave GitHub by ne

by sikozu 5mo ago

With Ghostty being the latest project to leave GitHub, it does make me wonder who will leave next. I don't expect everybody and their nan to leave GitHub by next wednesday and spin up their own Forgejo server, but I do think GitHub should be worried that people are finally looking to move away from them.

napolux 5mo ago
do we have already an HN user creating "who-left-gh.net"? (domain is free)
- Imustaskforhelp 5mo ago
  Created a repository to track all the latest github projects (ironically, my project is on github xD) https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/who-left-gh/ https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/who-left-gh/ Currently I know 3 projects, Ghostty, Bookstack-app, Hardenedbsd who have seemed to move away from Github from my understanding.
  - mi_lk 5mo ago
    arguably Zig started the trend just about the time GH really gone shit (this year)
  - jefftime 5mo ago
    The Zig project has also left GitHub relatively recently https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/ https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
    - Imustaskforhelp 5mo ago
      Thanks to both you and mi_lk, I have added zig to the list.
mettamage 5mo ago
I'm a bit out of the loop, why are people moving away from Github?
- cocoflunchy 5mo ago
  Mainly this https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ But also product decisions that don't seem to be aligned with the preferences of users... see https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
  - NetOpWibby 5mo ago
    There's partial outages even today?! Good grief!
- goalieca 5mo ago
  Zero to one nines of uptime. Shoving copilot in everyone’s faces rather than focusing on quality. Threatening to charge people for self-hosted runners.
  - mettamage 5mo ago
    Aiiiyy, yea okay that hurts... Gosh. We're going from software to slopware.
- lyu07282 5mo ago
  > GitHub saw a 58% year-over-year increase in the number of incidents, reaching 109 reported cases: > 17 of them were classified as major, leading to over 100 hours of total disruption. > April stood out as the most turbulent month, with incidents accumulating to 330 hours and 6 minutes. https://gitprotect.io/blog/devops-threats-unwrapped-mid-year-report-2025/ https://gitprotect.io/blog/devops-threats-unwrapped-mid-year... That's from 2025 but it continued getting even worse this year.
  - guywithahat 5mo ago
alper 5mo ago
The entrenchment here is ridiculous. The average software engineer does not care at all about their vcs or their forge and their knowledge of both is extremely shallow. For the people who want to do their work and get on with their life, it does not really matter that much.
- bensyverson 5mo ago
  Exactly. I run my own Gitea server, but put my stuff on Github, because that's where the people are. Self-hosting an MP3 is not the same as being on Spotify.
  - _heimdall 5mo ago
    I keep my open source work on github for similar reasons. I don't expect nor want to deal with contributors having to create accounts on a self-hosted forge for every individual project they work on.

by sikozu 5mo ago

napolux 5mo ago

do we have already an HN user creating "who-left-gh.net"? (domain is free)

Imustaskforhelp 5mo ago
Created a repository to track all the latest github projects (ironically, my project is on github xD) https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/who-left-gh/ https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/who-left-gh/ Currently I know 3 projects, Ghostty, Bookstack-app, Hardenedbsd who have seemed to move away from Github from my understanding.
- mi_lk 5mo ago
  arguably Zig started the trend just about the time GH really gone shit (this year)
- jefftime 5mo ago
  The Zig project has also left GitHub relatively recently https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/ https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
  - Imustaskforhelp 5mo ago
    Thanks to both you and mi_lk, I have added zig to the list.

mettamage 5mo ago

I'm a bit out of the loop, why are people moving away from Github?

cocoflunchy 5mo ago
Mainly this https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ But also product decisions that don't seem to be aligned with the preferences of users... see https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github
- NetOpWibby 5mo ago
  There's partial outages even today?! Good grief!
goalieca 5mo ago
Zero to one nines of uptime. Shoving copilot in everyone’s faces rather than focusing on quality. Threatening to charge people for self-hosted runners.
- mettamage 5mo ago
  Aiiiyy, yea okay that hurts... Gosh. We're going from software to slopware.
lyu07282 5mo ago
> GitHub saw a 58% year-over-year increase in the number of incidents, reaching 109 reported cases: > 17 of them were classified as major, leading to over 100 hours of total disruption. > April stood out as the most turbulent month, with incidents accumulating to 330 hours and 6 minutes. https://gitprotect.io/blog/devops-threats-unwrapped-mid-year-report-2025/ https://gitprotect.io/blog/devops-threats-unwrapped-mid-year... That's from 2025 but it continued getting even worse this year.
- guywithahat 5mo ago

alper 5mo ago

The entrenchment here is ridiculous. The average software engineer does not care at all about their vcs or their forge and their knowledge of both is extremely shallow. For the people who want to do their work and get on with their life, it does not really matter that much.

bensyverson 5mo ago
Exactly. I run my own Gitea server, but put my stuff on Github, because that's where the people are. Self-hosting an MP3 is not the same as being on Spotify.
- _heimdall 5mo ago
  I keep my open source work on github for similar reasons. I don't expect nor want to deal with contributors having to create accounts on a self-hosted forge for every individual project they work on.