GoKawiilTL;DR: GitHub used to be cool and now it’s a lame slop graveyard.
GitHub is racing towards the mythical zero nines of uptime. Users are starting to notice that GitHub is now a Microsoft product. Eww!
Official uptime paints a concerning chart. The missing status page tell a far worse story. Whatever the truth, it’s impossible to miss the delightful experience that is Microsoft GitHub if you use it semi-regularly.
Alt Line chart showing GitHub average uptime by month following the Microsoft acquisition. A green line turns into an orange and red roller coaster. GitHub’s Historic Uptime
Microsoft acquired GitHub and applied their unique brand of enshittification. Amongst their achievements was the spawning of the Copilot circle of hell. Now they’re effectively DDoSing themselves with slop. I won’t dwell on what else went wrong. I don’t know and I don’t care. GitHub is impressively bad now. It’s embarrassing. Shameful.
As I write this the obituaries are flooding in:
It’s long past time to get off this sinking ship!
Git is not GitHub
GitHub has become synonymous with “source control” and I worry too many users don’t know that Git is not GitHub. The core technology of Git is open source. It’s distributed, meaning that all repositories are equal. Git works without a centralised service. Such a practice is a construct of social convenience. GitHub was a useful add-on. Microsoft has turned GitHub into an expensive liability.
But network effect…
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