alt Hacker NewsHashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'
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Nothing is pissing me off more than GitHub's stability going down the tubes RIGHT as work is migrating everything, and I mean everything, from CircleCI to GH.
The wildest thing is that Azure Repos/Pipelines was better than this.
Their one caveat is also that they are still migrating it to Azure infra, so it's possible that's still in a one foot in one foot out kinda scenario, from what I've heard. But, this isn't inspiring confidence.
Duplicate. 904 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
As we speak, there is github api issues going on.
> “I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008,”
How do you find out what "github user #" you are?
I’m certain I’m up there in the 1% of users, or close to it, that are writing software daily in terms of consistent prolonged volume of work and work that is actually used by others over the past nearly 20 years based on user activity statistics I’ve collected.
I, too, am a fairly, but not immediate early user of GitHub. Despite GitHub’s poor metrics, I am still shipping, because writing software doesn’t require GitHub.
Hashimoto’s comments sound disturbed and I hope he finds some peace, but if he wasn’t who he was and you read these comments, you’d think this person had a problem. So, I think he does.
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.
Is it me, or did get issues get a lot worse with the transfer to MSFT?
Objectively we can not say "this is the beginning of the end of GitHub". Many people use GitHub daily still. But I think this right now is kind of a period of where GitHub is sliding into a bigger crisis. I am noticing this, among other things (including reddit and Hackernews in the last ~4 weeks becoming more and more critical of Microslop, 'xcuse me, Microsoft, which controls GitHub of course) when I look at the recent blog entries made by GitHub staff - the three latest being:
27th April 2026: Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
28th April 2026: An update on GitHub availability
28th April 2026:Securing the git push pipeline bla bla bla critical remote code vulnerability bla bla bla
In particular the GitHub availability is interesting. When I read it, it almost sounded like a plea to "believe in us still, guys!!!". If you then read what the ghostty author wrote, something between the blog post from GitHub, and the outside world, no longer matches. GitHub is like on the titanic, they see the iceberg part above water and say "nothing to see here, this ship is invincible" (aka AI is invincible). Meanwhile everyone else already jumps off the ship ...
just like hashicorp, its careers site redirects to IBM site with no filter to find hashicorp positions
You gotta admire journalists.
Such a one punch sentence that distills the message with a little bit of dramatic flair.
got damn, anyone got recommendations on how to write like a journalist ?
He can leave. Why do we have to care about what he says or does?
Is Gitlab doing better at this point? Or where do they stand?
everyone knew M$ would ruin github
the fake surprise is so fake
Now I understand why my ArgoCD randomly shows sync problems saying it cannot access GitHub
I feel like I’m out of the loop, or maybe I’m just not a super GitHub power user, but GitHub does pretty much what I expect and I haven’t had issues with it. All my git commands for GitHub just work and PRs and code reviews are the same as it’s always been.
Can someone explain what exactly is so bad now that leaving it entirely to use some new platform, even spinning up your own servers, is a reasonable alternative?
[dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579
Let's be honest there's an order of magnitude or more higher throughput volume of PR jitter and new repo bloat which makes this look like a viral digital native at scale.. couple that with being owned by one of the most scale immature companies on the planet ... of course it's a problem.
Get these folks off Azure and Cosmos DB (or whatever MSFT forces them to use) to something real and maybe you'd have a shot
It isn't surprising at all, Microsoft is doing a PE firm playbook with what they buy. You don't need to look much far, let's think about its biggest acquisition to date, Blizzard.
Blizzcon canceled. All of its IP barely got any love.
See what players think about the latest World of Warcraft patch. It's absolutely shit and broken. People say they fired the entire QA department since a few years back and since then the quality has just gone down.
They buy those businesses because they have nothing to do with that free cash flow, and for accounting reasons it makes sense to have them.
They didn't buy those businesses to develop it further and make it worth more.
Github will just become ever more irrelevant.
The key issue is that the US governments let those huge monopolies exist, and then use their money to buy other businesses and enshiftify them.
Unless that changes in the US, this will continue happening.
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Are we watching live the first company that implodes due to Vibe Coding?
I imagine they'll ruin VS Code and NPM next.
GitLab isn't much better. The releases ignore serious bugs, but they have unlimited budget to make stupid UI tweaks that offer zero real world improvement.