alt Hacker NewsGood thing GitHub has plenty of built-up goodwill to spend down. If they didn’t this cascade of (probably necessary but nevertheless negative for customers) changes might be the tipping point to push a lot of companies to seek other options.
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dgellow • yesterday at 9:24 PM
GitHub has already lost so much good will. It was one of the best pace on the internet for like a decade and is now just a real pain in the ass to interact with
taormina • yesterday at 4:07 PM
They burned through their goodwill years ago and are insistent on reminding us all that they are now exactly as shitty as Microsoft because they it’s all Microslop worst customer practices.
> Good thing GitHub has plenty of built-up goodwill to spend down
Do they, though? I don't know a single person who uses GitHub who actually likes it. It's far more often something like "it's fine, but I miss (GitLab|Gerrit)" or "I stopped using it for personal stuff and moved to (Codeberg|GitLab)."
The brand recognition among non-technical folks is really the strongest selling point in my eyes. And that's irrelevant to ~95% of software development.