Comment by lynndotpy | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lynndotpy | Hacker News Reader

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It's certainly not the right platform. It'd be one thing if they had any official communication on the matter anywhere else. Maybe they're ashamed and are trying to limit the visibility while only technically issuing an announcement.

They announced this exclusively on X.com, which ranks barely above Pinterest in terms of usage. That's below Reddit, Snapchat, WeChat, and Instagram, and requires a user account to view profiles and posts. And that's ignoring all the reasons X is a divisive platform with an extreme political bent.

GitHub chose not to announce this on any other social media either (BlueSky, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, or Mastodon, as of this posting, and with no emails sent on the matter.)

Who the heck follows Github on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit, Facebook, WeChat?

Wherever they posted, there’s at this time two articles on the Hacker News front page. Sounds like they have reached their audience.

It's to point out how comparatively small X is. It's in the same ballpark as Pinterest and Quora.

Github decided not to use email (which every Github customer has), their sites, or their otherwise active BlueSky.

It's not small in the tech community though. Users are not distributed evenly among platforms. Others may have more users but not as many tech users.

Maybe, but I don't use it and nobody I know uses it. It's a very politically divisive platform, and users without an account can't post on there.

There are plenty of reasons not to use X, but that's not what's in contention. X.com was the _only_ platform they shared this information on.

It bears repeating: Github decided not to use email, which every GitHub customer has, and Github chose not to use their sites, and GitHub chose not to use their otherwise active BlueSky.

> Maybe they're ashamed and are trying to limit the visibility while only technically issuing an announcement.

I think that's panic mode from some decision maker (i.e. head of marketing or head of security).

It’s not like they have a choice as a public company. I wonder if this low visibility post meets SEC requirements though.

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