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showersttoday at 4:17 PM4 repliesview on HN

If you'd have asked me a few years ago if anything could be an existential threat to github's dominance in the tech community I'd have quickly said no.

If they don't get their ops house in order, this will go down as an all-time own goal in our industry.


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panarkytoday at 4:33 PM

Github lost at least one 9, if not two, since last year's "existential" migration to Azure.

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bartreadtoday at 4:45 PM

Yeah, I'm literally looking at GitLab's "Migrate from GitHub" page on their docs site right now. If there's a way to import issues and projects I could be sold.

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thinkingtoilettoday at 5:40 PM

This is obviously empty speculation, but I wonder if the mindless rush to AI has anything to do with the increase in outages we've seen recently.

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jbmilgromtoday at 4:37 PM

I viscerally dislike github so much at this point. I don't know how how they come back from this. Major opportunity for competitor here to come around and with ai native features like context versioning