alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft will probably try to sneak it back in later. They've done that with other intrusions.
Migrating away from Github just increased in priority.
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Talking about doing it is virtue signaling.
Don't just say, do! If you have a popular repository, share news of your migration to drive others to do the same.
VOTE WITH YOUR FEET, PEOPLE!
They only turn on features that users disabled every chance they get.
Instead of polluting PRs, Copilot will insert comments and logging and text fields and buttons with links to web sites with helpful product tips into your code and user interfaces.
GitHub is sticky. 'Migrate away now' sounds nice until a 50-person team spends a week on CI yakshaving and remote auth, then self-hosting Gitea looks less like an exit than a fresh pile of infra work. Micorsoft knows the switching cost sits on your side, so they can eat a round of backlash and try the same stunt later unless a boring competitor shows up with fewer knobs and no growth agenda.
Yes. Like they did with the githubsearch for users that are not logged in.
At first, they brought it back. Then they changed to limits so you get between zero and two searches before getting an error message that you have hit some kind of limit.