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With Ghostty being the latest project to leave GitHub, it does make me wonder who will leave next.

I don't expect everybody and their nan to leave GitHub by next wednesday and spin up their own Forgejo server, but I do think GitHub should be worried that people are finally looking to move away from them.

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The entrenchment here is ridiculous. The average software engineer does not care at all about their vcs or their forge and their knowledge of both is extremely shallow.

For the people who want to do their work and get on with their life, it does not really matter that much.

Exactly. I run my own Gitea server, but put my stuff on Github, because that's where the people are. Self-hosting an MP3 is not the same as being on Spotify.

I keep my open source work on github for similar reasons. I don't expect nor want to deal with contributors having to create accounts on a self-hosted forge for every individual project they work on.

I'm a bit out of the loop, why are people moving away from Github?

Mainly this https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ But also product decisions that don't seem to be aligned with the preferences of users... see https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-leaving-github

There's partial outages even today?! Good grief!

Zero to one nines of uptime. Shoving copilot in everyone’s faces rather than focusing on quality. Threatening to charge people for self-hosted runners.

Aiiiyy, yea okay that hurts...

Gosh. We're going from software to slopware.

> GitHub saw a 58% year-over-year increase in the number of incidents, reaching 109 reported cases: > 17 of them were classified as major, leading to over 100 hours of total disruption. > April stood out as the most turbulent month, with incidents accumulating to 330 hours and 6 minutes.

https://gitprotect.io/blog/devops-threats-unwrapped-mid-year...

That's from 2025 but it continued getting even worse this year.

I will say, to their credit, there has been a ~25% yoy commit increase since the introduction of AI. That's a pretty significant jump on an already popular site, at the same time they're supposed to be training models for search and other features. I think most sites that see that sort of increase will experience increased downtime

do we have already an HN user creating "who-left-gh.net"? (domain is free)

Created a repository to track all the latest github projects (ironically, my project is on github xD)

https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/who-left-gh/

Currently I know 3 projects, Ghostty, Bookstack-app, Hardenedbsd who have seemed to move away from Github from my understanding.

The Zig project has also left GitHub relatively recently

https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/

Thanks to both you and mi_lk, I have added zig to the list.

arguably Zig started the trend just about the time GH really gone shit (this year)

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