The right time to look elsewhere was when Microsoft bought it.

The next best time was when viable alternatives like GitLab and later, Codeberg appeared.

The next best time was when it became clear that they were stealing your code to feed into their sparkly autocomplete and were going to sell it back to you.

The next best time was when they dumped a bunch of vibecoded garbage into the codebase and killed the uptime.

The next best time is now.

You don't even have to migrate all your stuff. Just start all your new projects on Codeberg, or GitLab, or something self-hosted. Once you get used to the new place, you can migrate your old stuff when you're ready.

GitHub Has a Microsoft Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?

Federated git forges can't come fast enough. Fuck gitlab for so willingly dropping the ball

Self-hosted Forgejo works well for my own use. My employer is moving to GitHub Enterprise where it’s a separate instance per company with certain infra shared. Should be a slight improvement, I guess, though probably not a bad idea to make sure internal tooling is built with the git forge being configurable. 😉

Is your code free for others to do whatever the fuck they want to with it? : codeberg

Do you want to put certain restrictions (eg financial)? Gitlab

Yeah it was completely useless today.

Radicle https://radicle.dev/

I mean yes, Microsoft and slopcode probably plays a role, but it only got really bad once the LLM mass scraping started, for which I assume Github is also a major target.

And running your own public git forge is a real PITA these days for similar reasons.

Moved to codeberg.org when that Microslop VP took over running github. I have nothing on the platform but my account so I can look at other stuff on the site.

Any alternatives with a good UI? Really don't like the ones for codeberg or gitlab tbh, and GitHub is bearable

We need decentralized forge such as radicle.dev to become more mainstream and people seeding tons of repo!

Already migrated to gitea

Am I the only one that needs to press F5 to get github to load after entering github.com in the browser? It only happen with github.

Unicorn error!

But the big issue for me is the authwalls. I'll migrate when we have a good replacement on the fediverse, when PRs and issue comments can be made from different instances

Apparently GitHub doesn't allow adding people to private repos if you don't pay, I switched to Codeberg after that