alt Hacker NewsI'm kind of baffled why everybody is suddenly hating on github? I use it just fine. I'm actually impressed how well codex is able to interact with it. I virtually do not need to fret about git commands or managing github to respond to issues anymore.
I don't see an alternative and its a bit of a stretch to expect people to follow you unless you are famous or have that audience reach already which many of us do not.
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I think your second paragraph alludes to the disconnect expressed in the first one.
The people "hating on github" and leaving it today, regardless of their (lack of) fame do not mind not being followed to the new forge, which may be a dealbreaker for you (an educated guess, from your phrasing). Conversely, you use GitHub "just fine" under terms the leavers consider dealbreakers.
What you are baffled by are differences in value judgements.
There's a wide variety of reasons, so I can only describe my own, but it comes down to supply chain risk.
Just as with the COVID supply chain problems reconfigured trust and assumptions, the actions of Microsoft and other large US software companies have become erratic and untrustworthy. In particular the sanctions against the ICC prosecutor in Europe have made it imperative to have zero dependence on Microsoft with easy exit paths at any given moment.
Similarly, one cannot trust Google as they can disable your account one day, with zero recourse, zero ability to appeal, zero accountability to Google for disabling your email and SSO. Except maybe posting on HN and causing enough bad PR to get Google to act to suppress the bad PR.
The US is no longer a nation of laws, it's a nation of whatever the president wants, and even impartial courts are likely to be overturned by an extremely partisan Supreme Court that has said that the president can not break the law while doing "official acts", whatever the heck that means.
Audience is not a factor for me at all, if GitHub is a social network for you then it definitely makes sense to use it still.
But I don't know anybody that needs the social aspects of GitHub. That's just the people I know and work with, however.
> I'm kind of baffled why everybody is suddenly hating on github? I use it just fine.
For past two weeks I haven't been really able to browse repositories; some parts will not get downloaded. Issues not appearing after creating. Pull requests missing. All kinds of issues.
Primarily anti AI. Also doesn't feel like my private repositories are both truly private, nor safe there anymore
Frustration from the outages, anti-AI sentiment, and the anti-hosted-software sentiment are converging.
On the positive side, HN has gone through multiple periods of enthusiasm for new code forges. There was even excitement for GitHub at one point. :) It’s good because all the forges generally add each other’s features if one takes off.