even aside from this, their reliability has been absolutely terrible since they took it over. it's down so often we had to setup slack notifications directly to the devs to try to take some of the pressure off our ops teams.

they must be migrating it to hyper-v or something. brutal.

For personal stuff I hopped over to source hut and it's fine.

Simple, direct, and I really like the email based workflows.

What are some good alternatives for closed source codebases that people have been using and enjoying?

I only ask because I already know of good alternatives for FOSS, but it's the private / work projects that keep me tethered to GH for now.

Funny that people said the exact same thing back when GitHub was originally acquired [0], I wonder how many actually went through with their words and ditched it. I bet GitHub has more users today than ever before though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286

i am surprised it took them time to destroy Github. usually they manage to make acquired companies a garbage pretty fast.

Are there any obvious successor to GitHub yet?

There are a few alternatives, but none have the critical mass of users yet.