For further developments in this repo, please move to:
https://tangled.org/@pluie.me/flake
https://codeberg.org/pluiedev/flake
Y'know, I used to like GitHub. I've started using it in... 2016? Damn! I'm a genuine ten-year veteran now! But honestly, I've been pretty disappointed recently. So disappointed, that I chose to seek my fortune elsewhere.
Not out of any moral, ethical, ideological or dogmatic reasons — those were already well-enunciated enough by many of my peers — but out of sheer pragmatism, that GitHub simply does not offer a stable, high-quality, enjoyable experience for me and many others alike.
My exodus from GitHub is because I realized that, between all the big wigs barking about how they will "hard pivot" into providing a quality AI platform, they have completely lost the ability to run a good code hosting service.
Now, don't get me wrong. I don't think that developing AI is necessarily contradictory with providing a good service — au contraire. AI is only the symptom. A quality service should not have to resort to increase its surface value with techno-optimist-sounding catchphrases, corporate laconisms, and general trendcatching. No. A quality service is a trendsetter, something that shows the entire industry how it should and ought to be done.
When I first joined GitHub, it was that trendsetter. It is the way how code should to be hosted, and it defined how online open-source collaboration of the decade ought be conducted. Every modern Git forge in existence that has a pull request-like feature owes their fundamental design to GitHub. Somewhere in the process, that status is lost. Their ability of operating a reliable and enjoyable service, gone down in the drain with it.
GitHub's focus on AI is not the core problem. It is just the sign that their core business is no longer competitive. GitHub had not introduced a fundamental new feature and hasn't shaped the future of OSS collaboration since the Year of Our Lord Twenty Eighteen, while its countless competitors have drawn from it and learned from its shortcomings and pitfalls.
It is time for all of us to pack up our bags and seek greener pastures. Newer forges with newer ideas are exploiting the lacuna left by GitHub's own incompetence. Yes, it will be slightly annoying to migrate away from the mindset that "GitHub has it all" — but isn't the beauty of OSS, that everyone can make their own choice?