Github has not even one-nine of uptime. Normally you want three-nines or four-nines, they have ZERO-nines. A server in your basement is worlds more reliable.
96 issues in the last 90 days.
There’s two nines right there! Just not the ones you need.
the monkey paw curls type shit
Yeah, and the worst thing about this is that Github is critical infrastructure. If Github goes down the drain, so many devs and projects will be affected
The great thing about git is, that it is pretty decentralized in principle (everyone has a full copy of all source code and commits on their machines), so it is pretty easy to move your whole repository to an alternative git hoster, like Codeberg.
I keep hearing about codeberg. Yet, when Claude CLI was leaked — I found the repo on some weird blockchain git repository with a message like “It’s here forever now…”
For OSS and personal projects, wouldn’t a blockchain solution actually be pretty good?
Edit: found it https://gitlawb.com/node/repos/z6MkgKkb/instructkr-claude-code
Not really. Blockchain technology has one use case and that is collaboration between partners who don’t trust each other. So we’re talking crypto coins, where not all nodes are really trustworthy and there is an incentive to cheat. But there’s no reason to bring this tech to your Git repository because you really do not want untrustworthy participants in your code. Only you should have access to your Git rep, and then the easier solution is to host it yourself and use a normal database.
Maybe I am using the wrong technology for the right idea here, in my statement. What I’m really trying to get at is, wouldn’t we benefit greatly from having decentralized control over git hosting? Ideally then, The People decide what happens with it as a public resource — not a fickle technology company with competing interests and revolving management.
The solution should be immune to DMCA takedown requests, IMO.
Edit: I’ve never really thought about it… but decentralized hosting could seriously mess with IP laws, couldn’t it? Leaks can be done in a way that they cannot be undone.
Almost 12 days down in the last 90 days.
I mean, there’s gotta be a few nines in there if you keep going enough decimal places to the right…
Of course it fucking is, it runs Linux, not Winslowpes from Microslop. My basement server has 100% uptime, and I’ve got it for close to free (like ten bucks, literally). It’s an old Intel Atom powered desktop motherboard from circa early 2010s if not late 2000s. The uptime was real and literal 100%, but over time I started powering off, when I realised I don’t need it being on all the time. It still has 100% availability for when I need it. I should care more about backups, but the data is backed up, while the system … the thing is, I’ve learnt so much since I installed its system, almost a decade ago, that, I think I’d reinstall it. It’s Arch Linux, which technically doesn’t need to be reinstalled, but it uses quite a lot of actually old things I don’t bother changing.
Okay, I might be not correct, I bet Microslop runs everything of importance on Linux too. It’s rather their stack is very heavily slopped, that’s my wild guess why it’s down all the time.
Hm, interesting, I can not remember a single time in the last 10 years where github has any issue for me.
Contrary to that I know “nine” availability services that failed a lot of time.
Even the most hackiest, quickly coded with no regard for other devs systems at work have one 9, it’s fucking pathetic.
I wonder what exactly they screwed up to bork it like this. It would seem like a no brainer to leave all the git stuff alone and add all the random fancy AI stuff in a separated manner.
You know, when Boeing let the MBAs run engineering, several hundred people died. It doesn’t seem like any other companies have learned from this.
Forgejo is the best alternative. They are also working on ActivityPub support, so different Forgejo instances can communicate with each other.
Codeberg is one of the many Forgejo instances.
Love the idea of a federated github, but I could only find this list of instances,
and from my basic test it looks like the search doesn’t bring up projects from other instances? Unless I’m doing something wrong.Read my comment again.
They are also working on ActivityPub support, so different Forgejo instances can communicate with each other.
They are working on it. They haven’t enabled it yet. And afaik the only thing that works atm is favorite count.
You can track progress here:
https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md
edit: atm it seems like these are done (despite the last two not being marked as such, I guess the roadmap is a bit outdated):
- federated star
- federated unstar
- federated user activity following
Oh, my bad. I was confused. I assumed ActivityPub was some specific sub-app rather than a general communication protocol. That makes sense. Would still be good to get a list of instances.
Do you want a list of Forgejo instances in general or specifically ones that have this experimental federation enabled?
General, assuming you think most will enable federation in due time. I’m just looking for the most appropriate place to join with.
Just go with Codeberg.org then.
You can move your repos elsewhere sometime later if you want to.
more FOSS projects NEED to get off github. there’s been countless things I’ve stopped using because I refuse to open another github account to simply post an issue or contribute to something.
I’m sorry, but these like ultimatums that people gave themselves are kind of ridiculous if I have an issue and the developer only uses GitHub I’m gonna post the issue on GitHub and get the issue fixed for myself and everyone else I’m not gonna use some purity test and be like oh let’s not fix this issue just because I can’t stand the parent company like Jesus fucking Christ you go touch some goddamn grass
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lol; Windowscentral.com topic sentence: “Microsoft’s ability to acquire successful companies and then destroy them needs to be studied. Today, we’re talking about GitHub.”
More to the point the uptime fiasco(es) aren’t even the biggest issue. The biggest issue is that microsoft is not secure. Take it as a rule of thumb and you’ll never be disappointed, and hopefully never compromised.
Of course microslop acquiring it was the signal to move. Of course it was.
Bonus schadenfreude in blaming Nadella. As if he isn’t doing exactly what they want him to do. As if Balmer wouldn’t be upside down in a smoking hole in the ground by this point.
That’s the politically correct version. Back in the day they just called it BOGU.
Bend Over Grease Up.
Yeah. Classic microsoft.
Codeberg.org is your friend.
Is it possible to make repos without going to their site yet?
Yes, but you’ll need to login through terminal
A mistake in the article: ghostty is not “nearly two decades” old. It’s like two years old. I think the author saw that the ghostty developer had been on github for that long, and assumed that the ghostty project had been going the whole time.
It’s great to see popular projects moving to alternatives.
It prompted a groveling apology from GitHub’s CCO in response, who said […]
I’m sorry, @mitchellh. The team is going to keep working to make GitHub something you can come back to with real proof, not words. Until then, I’ll still be cheering on Ghostty as a user.April 28, 2026
“Groveling”? Who would write an this article like this? That’s just a regular-ass apology on social media.
I wouldn’t even call that an apology. One “sorry” and some verbiage alluding to things being better at some mysterious point in the future.
Of course, hollow words is basically what social media is made of, so you’re not wrong…
Soo, they vibe-refactored a perfectly fine working product?
And then speedran loosing all of their customers. It’s no longer reliable. Businesses can not have downtime when you are paying idle employees. Now we get to watch them hemorrhage customers until they die.
I was thinking of joining GitHub back then, but the announcement that MS is buying it put me off. I was right from the start.
Start migrating elsewhere folks
codeberg will do.
Gitlab maybe? (someone already said Codeberg)
Downhill ever since they removed the horizontal merge graph from the classic Desktop, then closed an issue about it because too many people were affected.
lol. they really are speedrunning their end, aren’t they?
They’re going to try and buy all the right politicians to remove the competition so you don’t have any choice.
Left github months ago. Fuck that star greed. Everyone experienced enough to code and git has the power to run a forgejo instance on it’s own. Or simply go to https://codeberg.org/.
Even my employer, otherwise eager to gargle Microslop balls as deep as they can (Ooh, look! Another option to replace a third party tool with Microslop! Also, because apparently so many people still haven’t accepted the lord and saviour into their hearts, let’s aggressively market the utility of Copilot and offer more crash course introductions!)…
…are hosting their own Gitlab instance. I won’t say it’s perfect, but apparently we used Github in the past and have since moved away.
how many vibe coding incidents will it take for microslop to learn?
