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HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'

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Comments (135)

  • WestCoader
    Nothing is pissing me off more than GitHub's stability going down the tubes RIGHT as work is migrating everything, and I mean everything, from CircleCI to GH.The wildest thing is that Azure Repos/Pipelines was better than this.Their one caveat is also that they are still migrating it to Azure infra, so it's possible that's still in a one foot in one foot out kinda scenario, from what I've heard. But, this isn't inspiring confidence.
  • bellowsgulch
    I’m certain I’m up there in the 1% of users, or close to it, that are writing software daily in terms of consistent prolonged volume of work and work that is actually used by others over the past nearly 20 years based on user activity statistics I’ve collected.I, too, am a fairly, but not immediate early user of GitHub. Despite GitHub’s poor metrics, I am still shipping, because writing software doesn’t require GitHub.Hashimoto’s comments sound disturbed and I hope he finds some peace, but if he wasn’t who he was and you read these comments, you’d think this person had a problem. So, I think he does.
  • rwmj
    > “I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008,”How do you find out what "github user #" you are?
  • daft_pink
    The main question is what is the best alternative??
  • ajdude
  • sikozu
    With Ghostty being the latest project to leave GitHub, it does make me wonder who will leave next.I don't expect everybody and their nan to leave GitHub by next wednesday and spin up their own Forgejo server, but I do think GitHub should be worried that people are finally looking to move away from them.
  • flossly
    Is it me, or did get issues get a lot worse with the transfer to MSFT?
  • aussieguy1234
    Are we watching live the first company that implodes due to Vibe Coding?
  • dzonga
    You gotta admire journalists.Such a one punch sentence that distills the message with a little bit of dramatic flair.got damn, anyone got recommendations on how to write like a journalist ?
  • kartoshechka
    just like hashicorp, its careers site redirects to IBM site with no filter to find hashicorp positions
  • cdrnsf
    I imagine they'll ruin VS Code and NPM next.
  • nacozarina
    everyone knew M$ would ruin githubthe fake surprise is so fake
  • deadbabe
    I feel like I’m out of the loop, or maybe I’m just not a super GitHub power user, but GitHub does pretty much what I expect and I haven’t had issues with it. All my git commands for GitHub just work and PRs and code reviews are the same as it’s always been.Can someone explain what exactly is so bad now that leaving it entirely to use some new platform, even spinning up your own servers, is a reasonable alternative?
  • bwb
    Is Gitlab doing better at this point? Or where do they stand?
  • erelong
    so where should people move to instead
  • ChrisArchitect
  • redwood
    Let's be honest there's an order of magnitude or more higher throughput volume of PR jitter and new repo bloat which makes this look like a viral digital native at scale.. couple that with being owned by one of the most scale immature companies on the planet ... of course it's a problem.Get these folks off Azure and Cosmos DB (or whatever MSFT forces them to use) to something real and maybe you'd have a shot
  • thiago_fm
    It isn't surprising at all, Microsoft is doing a PE firm playbook with what they buy. You don't need to look much far, let's think about its biggest acquisition to date, Blizzard.Blizzcon canceled. All of its IP barely got any love.See what players think about the latest World of Warcraft patch. It's absolutely shit and broken. People say they fired the entire QA department since a few years back and since then the quality has just gone down.They buy those businesses because they have nothing to do with that free cash flow, and for accounting reasons it makes sense to have them.They didn't buy those businesses to develop it further and make it worth more.Github will just become ever more irrelevant.The key issue is that the US governments let those huge monopolies exist, and then use their money to buy other businesses and enshiftify them.Unless that changes in the US, this will continue happening.
  • redsocksfan45
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