GitHub Has a Microsoft Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
Submitted 4 days ago by dhruv3006@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://dhruv2038.bearblog.dev/github-has-an-availability-problem-is-it-time-to-look-elsewhere/
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SatyrSack@quokk.au 4 days ago warmaster@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Breaking: Water is wet. Read the in-depth analysis on why you should have gotten a boat years ago and why you should still get one now!
But wait, there’s more: a gigantic colony of Microtards that don’t understand why the water is wet, and they don’t care!
More news at 11.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 days ago
Federated git forges can’t come fast enough. Fuck gitlab for so willingly dropping the ball
melfie@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Self-hosted Forgejo works well for my own use. My employer is moving to GitHub Enterprise where it’s a separate instance per company with certain infra shared. Should be a slight improvement, I guess, though probably not a bad idea to make sure internal tooling is built with the git forge being configurable. 😉
gdog05@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve been eyeing Gitea. Do you have any reason for using Forgejo that I might overlook Gitea in favor of it?
melfie@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I used to run Gitea and switched to Forgejo mainly because I prefer a community project over one run by a for-profit company. I never had any substantive complaints against Gitea during my time with it to be honest, but thought I’d get off of it before investing too much further in case it went in a bad direction.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 days ago Is your code free for others to do whatever the fuck they want to with it? : codeberg
Do you want to put certain restrictions (eg financial)? Gitlab
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 3 days ago Codeberg doesn’t allow you to use AI with your repos. Even if it is just writing your docs for you.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Didn’t allow you to use AI with your repos
You say that like it’s a bad thing, that’s a EXCELLENT THING, get the slop outta open source
- Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, I don’t think I have a codeberg going at the moment because I want to do CC4NC.
There’s like some scripts I don’t mind people making derived commercial works since they’re fucking tiny, but other than that, I don’t want people getting rich off my code.
PhenomenJan@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Radicle is awesome, but having to create a new account for each device is a pain, especially if you want them all to have access to the same private repo.
povoq@slrpnk.net@slrpnk.net 3 days ago I mean yes, Microsoft and slopcode probably plays a role, but it only got really bad once the LLM mass scraping started, for which I assume Github is also a major target.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Codeberg then
nieceandtows@programming.dev 4 days ago
Yeah it was completely useless today.
nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Radicle radicle.dev
onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 days ago
I’ve used. It works well enough. They supposedly have CI but either it’s not documented or nor ready, I can’t tell.
And there’s no way to get notifications of merge requests, comments or anything actually, so it serves well as a backup or private project host, but not much else, IMO.
PhenomenJan@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I think it might just be that their documentation is dispersed, and sometimes hard to find. I haven’t used the CI, so I can’t comment on how well it works, but it appears to be in use: blog.liw.fi/posts/2026/radicle-status-quo-07/
Here’s some docs on it: radicle-ci-broker.liw.fi/userguide.html radicle.network/…/rad%3AzwTxygwuz5LDGBq255RA2CbNG…
mvilain@fedia.io 4 days ago Moved to codeberg.org when that Microslop VP took over running github. I have nothing on the platform but my account so I can look at other stuff on the site.
sonalder@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
We need decentralized forge such as radicle.dev to become more mainstream and people seeding tons of repo!
_hovi_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Any alternatives with a good UI? Really don’t like the ones for codeberg or gitlab tbh, and GitHub is bearable
copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago What do you find bad about Forgejo / Codeberg’s UI?
_hovi_@lemmy.world 4 days ago
For forgejo I’m actually not too sure - “feel” is vague but the best I’ve got, maybe someone more UI inclined has clearer thoughts on it. Or maybe I just need to get used to it. It’s certainly much better than Gitlab imo.
flubba86@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Honestly, for me the Forgejo/Codeberg UI is the best out there, I actually like it even better than GitHub. I think you just need to get used to it. If you had been using Codeberg the last 10 years and just discovered GitHub today, you’d take one look at it and say the UI is bad.
_hovi_@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe yeah
alcea@feddit.org 4 days ago Already migrated to gitea
dewritoninja@pawb.social 2 days ago
Apparently GitHub doesn’t allow adding people to private repos if you don’t pay, I switched to Codeberg after that
lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Al I the only one that needs to press F5 to get github to load after entering github.com in the browser? It only happen with github.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I filled out an IT helpdesk request last week because I couldn’t push any updates to GitHub. I was able to access the site, so I though my access token was retired since that happens every once in awhile.
Nope. It was GitHub. For some reason it couldn’t accept my push despite the website still being up. And I didn’t find out until the tech called the the next day and it worked when I tried to recreate it in front of them
moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 3 days ago Unicorn error!
But the big issue for me is the authwalls. I’ll migrate when we have a good replacement on the fediverse, when PRs and issue comments can be made from different instances
percent@infosec.pub 2 days ago
- moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 1 day ago
Looks cool, but how do I browse existing repos?
danielquinn@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
The right time to look elsewhere was when Microsoft bought it.
The next best time was when viable alternatives like GitLab and later, Codeberg appeared.
The next best time was when it became clear that they were stealing your code to feed into their sparkly autocomplete and were going to sell it back to you.
The next best time was when they dumped a bunch of vibecoded garbage into the codebase and killed the uptime.
The next best time is now.
You don’t even have to migrate all your stuff. Just start all your new projects on Codeberg, or GitLab, or something self-hosted. Once you get used to the new place, you can migrate your old stuff when you’re ready.
dan1101@lemmy.world 4 days ago
This is exactly it, Microsoft always makes things about themselves. They change everything, mostly for the worse.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Comments like this are so frustrating to see, as my company goes backwards, moving from Gitlab to GitHub.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I mean, didn’t Gitlab also say they were going all-in on AI?
There’s no major forge you can use for proprietary projects that isn’t shitty.
Codeberg/Forgejo also have a simple button to migrate directly on the web UI