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Hard to say, the only people who know are those internal to MS and GH and know, or who have told others. You have copies of your repos in other systems, yeah? H
by toomuchtodo 4mo ago
Hard to say, the only people who know are those internal to MS and GH and know, or who have told others. You have copies of your repos in other systems, yeah? Have a plan you don't need rather than need a plan you don't have.
Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876289 - August 2025 (97 comments)
- reconnecting 4mo agoCodeberg constantly returns this just because I use an outdated Safari: 'If you are an AI scraper and wish to not receive garbage when visiting Codeberg: stop visiting. If you are not an AI scraper: contact Codeberg.'
- toomuchtodo 4mo agoPerhaps https://tangled.sh/ https://tangled.sh/ or a https://forgejo.org/ https://forgejo.org/ instance is an option?
- reconnecting 4mo agoThe question is rather whether GitHub is no longer an option, or will stop being one soon.
- toomuchtodo 4mo agoOne should always assume a vendor could vanish at any time, or your access to your data at the vendor. To assume this is a cheap mitigation against potential sadness. At a minimum, you should be keeping hot copies of all contents of your repos currently hosted at Github, code, issues, etc. This could be in another svn system, or archive blobs in object storage you have full control over and can hydrate as needed into operating svn systems. (risk management is my day gig)