Post #1754702
2026-04-28 19:46 UTC
Replies (35)
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@nkanaev@hachyderm.io 2026-04-28 20:00
@mitchellh Fair enough. What alternative are you considering moving to?
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@greut@swiss.social 2026-04-28 20:06
@mitchellh 1388 over here. Codeberg feels solid, maybe not for anyone outside the EU.
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@DerivativeThoughts@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 20:15
@mitchellh the part about loving github but it not loving you back enough to be the place you can still get work done feels so tragic. Github was so good whole generations of devs treated it like the default choice. We never learned how to use other forges or VC because you don't fix what isn't broken. Complete dominance of a market with excellence squandered in the name of Microsoft juicing everything just a bit more. Enshittification's most profound victim.
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@bitbraindev@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-28 20:24
@mitchellh I share your sentiment. Github nowadays disrupts my professional work on a weekly basis. Somehow, it got normalised that outages are okay somehow. This is unacceptable.
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@hipsauerkraut@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-28 20:54
@mitchellh Doomed the day it was purchased by micro$oft.
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@solariz@chaos.social 2026-04-28 20:57
@mitchellh absolutely understandable. Also started to move all my foss projects slowly away but keeping closed work repos there for convenience right now.
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@cloudthethings@hachyderm.io 2026-04-28 20:59
@mitchellh if you can, please try to set up some form of donation to wherever you land. They’ll undoubtedly appreciate it far more than Microsoft ever would.
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@bjarne@social.bvoigtlaender.de 2026-04-28 21:37
@mitchellh Understandably so, I am honestly amazed in how many different ways GitHub manages to disrupt my workflow daily, its small and big things but they add up fast. Looking forward to hear more on where you go next and how the migration works out.
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@BauarbeiterforFuture@mas.to 2026-04-28 21:40
@mitchellh what is ‚Git/Hub‘???
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@senono3@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 22:01
@mitchellh Why do you have to live it ... For sure I have placed myself in your shoes and I have developed a sorry emotion :blobugh: :mastodon:
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@gusseting@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 22:13
@mitchellh leaving Github for me was such a sigh of relief. I hope it is for you too.Looking forward to hearing about where you end up, if only to suggest to other folk :)
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@Fedihacker@masto.es 2026-04-28 22:31
@mitchellh Probably for the best. Down in this thread there's a graph with the uptime of GitHub since before Microsoft acquired it until this day. It's been degraded.
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@qgustavor@urusai.social 2026-04-28 22:44
@mitchellh The more people I see exiting from GitHub, the more I hope people write guides on doing so. At the moment, the thing that's making it hard for me is GitHub Actions, which I use a lot. Also, I wish I could find an alternative to pr-release that works with Codeberg. :HoloHmmm:
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@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange 2026-04-28 22:46
@mitchellh When Microsoft arrived on the scene, it was destined to go downhill. #EEE #Enshitification
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@itfossil@hachyderm.io 2026-04-28 22:52
@mitchellh Another wonderful thing destroyed by the idiots at the helm of Microsoft. #Microsoft #Enshittification #ThanksSatya #Tech
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@Joshuakevins12@mastodon.social 2026-04-28 23:15
@mitchellh Me too my previous Mastodon was suspended but I felt like crying... Al my content. . but I made sure that this time I read well the terms and conditions... Sorry bro
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@VogueLaGalere@mastodon.online 2026-04-28 23:35
@mitchellh I don't trust large companies because "for profit" means you'll eventually get skewered. (See the freely available movie The Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film)) So I run my own #Forgejo and I am happy as a clam knowing that nobody can take it away.
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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe 2026-04-28 23:44
@mitchellh It's Microsoft's fault.
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@charette@mstdn.ca 2026-04-29 00:59
@mitchellh Is it mostly the outages like you describe in the post? Or is that just the latest problem? For me, there are philosophical differences. The removal of the most popular "sponsor" option, meant I lost most of my sponsors a few years ago. The flippant answers from MS saying they were doing that "to provide more options", when it was obvious they were *removing* a popular option. Their decision to train AI with our content, and also move the entire GitHub organization under their AI umbrella. Codeberg is where I moved. If outages are an issue, then Codeberg may not be for you since they seem to suffer from DoS attacks every once in a while. But the philosophy when it comes to open source is what made me leave GitHub.
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@xenotar@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 02:48
@mitchellh Good move I moved from github to codeberg in 2023
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-04-29 04:14
@mitchellh It hurts when something you’ve developed an emotional attachment towards turns against the principles that created the emotional attachment in the first place. And emotions should matter. They’re core of being human, widely increasing the processing power we’re able to harness, not a weakness to be stifled.
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@d1@autistics.life 2026-04-29 04:16
@mitchellh it's pretty easy to install #Forgejo #OpenSource
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@mosen@hachyderm.io 2026-04-29 04:49
@mitchellh sorry to hear that. I hope we find the people who do care about making a better forge and help them make it an amazing place too!
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@Su_G@aus.social 2026-04-29 05:18
@mitchellh It’s brave of you to say this, to make the decision & share it: “I'm super sad to say this, but its time to go.” 😐 #leavingGitHub
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@mabdalrahman@mas.to 2026-04-29 05:21
@mitchellh It would be great to have a GitHub alternative that works in a distributed way, like Mastodon. Instead of everything being on one platform, people could host their own servers but still collaborate with others easily. This would give developers more control and reduce dependence on a single company.
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@hokid@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 06:01
@mitchellh "GitHub is the place that has made me the most happy", I don't know man, that sounds grim.
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@Gina@fosstodon.org 2026-04-29 06:35
@mitchellh we're big fans of @Codeberg . They're working on federation, so in the future there might a whole network of Forgejo instances. Worth the investment.
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@konstruct@woof.tech 2026-04-29 08:35
@mitchellh@hachyderm.io GitHub more like WeStealYourCodeForAIHub
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@namuro@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 08:27
@mitchellh Despite the apparent composure, it’s quite emotional.
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@buddyspencer@hachyderm.io 2026-04-29 11:44
@mitchellh fair enough
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@roryh@twit.social 2026-04-29 12:13
@mitchellh @philnelson This really feels like a service that can benefit from federation. https://forgefed.org
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@martin@social.just-a-shell.dev 2026-04-29 15:06
@mitchellh What are you choosing instead? I’m currently setting up a self-hosted Forgejo instance. However, it’s not an ideal solution until ForgeFed is stable and integrated.
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@mabdalrahman@mas.to 2026-04-29 20:53
@mitchellh check this out 👇 https://gitworkshop.dev/ It’s a decentralized way to collaborate on Git using Nostr + GRASP—no platform or account needed, and it works with your usual Git workflow.
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@npettiaux@mamot.fr 2026-05-02 05:43
@mitchellh great text. I understand your sadness. Hopefully, you'll find a new welcoming place on HTTPS://codeberg.org
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@koppor@mastodon.acm.org 2026-05-23 10:39
@mitchellh@hachyderm.io If 10% of the "leavers" of GitHub would contribute improvements to FOSS platforms, imagine how the world would look like. SourceForge was great (before GitHub appeared). They open sourced their platform. Now other FOSS platforms exist. One just needs to decide. #Codeberg looks promising IMHO.