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Comment by mosura | Hacker News Reader

GitHub has been especially bad.

Ultimately they have become a monopoly so it is kind of expected.

So many things on Github are now broken or utterly unusable, that this comment is not wrong. I mean even the code viewer/display is utterly broken and doesn't even perform standard text highlighting correctly. The folding marks often make no sense or are inconsistent. If one wants to see all forks of a repo, one has to go through "insights", I think few would suspect it to be located, and it doesn't show _all_ forks, according to the number displayed next to the fork button. The list of UI issues goes on and on. But then there are also the reliability issues, things being down every 2 weeks, or is it every week by now? Difficult to keep up with it really.

They are a monopoly in certain regions of the world.

Even though I live in a western country, just one of my clients after all these years of being self-employed, uses GitHub.

Nobody else would ever use it. And why would they? Especially for proprietary applications.

That's interesting, I get pushback when I suggest anything different and for devs under 30 I've had to remind them that git and github aren't the same thing. This is not to cast aspersions on them, just the state of things in the places I've worked.

Microsoft seems to be running the classic embrace, extend, extinguish playbook on github/git though. When it becomes impractical to join a team's workflow without github specific tooling then everyone will be forced to use gh.

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