> the entitled freeloaders

Now remind me again, who trained a coding-assistant without consent on those "freeloaders" code and sold it for profit?

Using a corporation's free offerings isn't freeloading. Microsoft wants people to put their code on GitHub. They want GitHub to be the place where source code is hosted, it is incredibly valuable. Saying "GitHub is sucking and I might leave" is information that Microsoft wants to know if they want to preserve GitHub's dominance.

Of course some people take it too far. Of course there are reasons that the outages are occurring. But Microsoft wants GitHub to be a core, reliable pillar of the software world. Nobody's making them do that, they do it because it's good for them.

True but paid users are also impacted.

We're still staying on Github at work, but have had backup self hosted git repos as a break glass option when Github is completely broken and leveraged this several times now.

It seems that paid users are equally impacted as free users.

It sounds a little bit unfair to me.

"Most people use GitHub and features for free"

Do you have a source for that factoid? (I suspect the vast majority of Github resource usage is paid. And we are upset.)

Entitlement? Please. It's not like Github is a charity that operates on kindness and goodwill.

It's a service that is owned and operated by Microsoft Corporation, and we're the product of it.

I mean, a lot of us have paid GitHub a lot of money for CI on private repos. And when GitHub themselves encourages the insane behavior of vibe coders and agents instead of just charging or rate limiting access of bots, it's hard to give them sympathy.

LOL. If it dies, it dies.

People take the weirdest rhetorical hostages.

Meh, just needs better QoS. Let the free tier shoulder the outages.