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Acquisition of GitHub let to increased downtimes, but also to unlimited private repos for the free tier.
by bulbar 1mo ago
Acquisition of GitHub let to increased downtimes, but also to unlimited private repos for the free tier.
- unsungNovelty 1mo ago... Which gitlab already had before github. And still does.
- petterroea 1mo agoThe unlimited private repos for free tier would have happened anyways. You have to remember that this was around the time people were jumping ship from GitHub exactly because they didn't offer private repos for free. It was something many wanted, and they were actively seeking out other places that would give it to them.
- bulbar 1mo agoI'm not convinced that's the case. GitHub was like that forever, they were well established and the change happened not long after Microsoft bought them. There was no global shift to gitlab instances or Atlassian as far as I am aware. You can dislike an entity or an action and still acknowledge it also had some positive effects.
- lopis 1mo agoOverall GitHub still got significantly worse since the acquisition. Downtime was essentially zero before.
- dyauspitr 1mo agoUsage was 5% of what it is now before.
- tehbeard 1mo agoIt was unreliable post acq. and before the slop-tsunami, the latter has just multiplied the underlying issue of their ipv4 only half assed azure migration.
- bulbar 1mo agoI only ever used GitHub for private (and a few public) repos, so for me personally it got significantly better, being able to have private repos for free. Pretty bad tradeoff of course, improving the situation for non paying people while making it bad for paying customers.