GitHub Has an Availability Problem. Is It Time to Look Elsewhere?
The developer community is expressing growing frustration with GitHub's recent service outages and perceived decline in quality following its acquisition by Microsoft. Discussions are emerging regarding the feasibility of migrating to alternative platforms despite the strong network effects keeping users on GitHub.
Why it matters
GitHub serves as the central hub for global software development; its reliability and governance have significant implications for the open-source ecosystem.
GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere.
Ever since Github got acquired by Microsoft it started getting bloated and enshittified - it lost its direction and doesn't seem to care about its customers. And Github is probably not the only one - there are many other examples.
We got to have a kill switch for this - when do we as a community say enough is enough and switch from GitHub. If a tool constantly proves unreliable, keep using it is not logical.
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