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Why hackers recommend it

“My company moved from Azure DevOps to GitHub because of the AI features.”
jack_sunsetless, 2026-10-12original comment ↗
“which we've lost now we've moved to GitHub”
rawling, 2026-08-31original comment ↗
“The last large company I worked for switched from self hosted github enterprise to github.com in January 2025 or so.”
annzabelle, 2026-08-26original comment ↗
“reason we all keep using GitHub is it has a million features and isn't as ugly, difficult and slow as GitLab.”
0xbadcafebee, 2026-03-24original comment ↗

What hackers criticize

“GitHub has been neither for us.”
jack_sunsetless, 2026-10-12original comment ↗
“My company has heavy handily moved from self-hosted version control system to github and now we’re suffering more outages.”
spacephysics, 2026-10-12original comment ↗
“The GitHub page is borked, since they removed Org mode support a day ago, but the manual and reference can be found on the web page.”
bjoli, 2026-10-02original comment ↗
“I always wondered when I moved from NodeJS to Golang on why do I need to import everything from github.”
pulkitbanta, 2026-09-28original comment ↗
“I wonder how much egg is on that exec's face.”
annzabelle, 2026-08-26original comment ↗
“GitHub purposefully weakens the capability of that approach to the point that it's kind of a hack.”
ericpauley, 2026-08-20original comment ↗
“Switched from github to codeberg a while a go and have been happy ever since.”
Douwekramer, 2026-07-31original comment ↗
“Still can't belive how snappy forgejo is / laggy github has become”
asa977, 2026-04-29original comment ↗
“but Microsoft also eliminated aka closed the discussions, which was to me censorship.”
shevy-java, 2026-04-04original comment ↗
“Has been more reliable and faster than GitHub.”
huijzer, 2026-03-26original comment ↗
“I've more or less made a similar migration towards non-US alternatives for most of my services.”
CIARobotFish, 2026-03-23original comment ↗
“Previously there were .vscode and .github directories in the project, which I now deleted for very similar reason: bloat.”
dawidg81, 2026-02-01original comment ↗

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